“The Night Tolkien Died sets a new benchmark for young adult fiction.”

“These terrific, compressed, passionate, frank stories announce themselves as being about serious adolescence, about ideas, emotions, experiences, relationships — and not just for young people — the insights are for adults too.”

“Nadia Wheatley’s The Night Tolkien Died is a collection of twelve stories, as deeply considered, as finely composed and as uncompromising in content and politics as her readers have come to expect... Wheatley can never be accused of writing down to her audience.”

“Reading these stories is like climbing a succession of mountain peaks... Freedom is the recurring theme throughout the book... The possibility of freedom empowers Nadia’s characters.”