'The prose in these passages is elegiac and affecting, but it has the sharp, visceral feel of the butcher's knife or surgeons scalpel ...a highly compulsive, one-sitting read, and Audition should add to the Renaissance Man's growing fanbase in the English speaking world'

Irvine Welsh, Guardian

'Sex, blood and the media (shaken violently) ... in the Bret Easton Ellis/Chuck Palahniuk mode'

Daily Telegraph

'A serious shocker - an inside-out romance'

Independent

'A haunting Japanese version of a David Lynch nightmare' (for PIERCING)

Guardian