The Eleventh Hour

The Eleventh Hour is a book of five stories about ageing and dying… It might sound bleak, but the writing is funny and frisky, full of pace and panache * Sunday Times *Entertaining and winningly heartfelt * Daily Telegraph *Compelling * London Standard *The opener is a beauty – it’s good to be back in Rushdie’s charming, witty world * The Times *At 78, Rushdie is still publishing impactful work; we can all doff our hats to one of the most important voices in contemporary literature * Independent *The energy of Rushdie’s prose and imagination…are as unflagging here as they were in his last novel, Victory City * i *Rushdie’s book characters tend to linger and stay in the reader’s mind long after the pages have been closed… his latest offering, The Eleventh Hour, is no different * UK Press Syndciation *A luminous collection * Economist, Books of the Year *The five short stories collected here feature the dead…yet Rushdie’s wry sense of mischief remains undimmed * Financial Times, Books of the Year *The Eleventh Hour reminded me most of the beautiful ending of The Satanic Verses… about “how newness enters the world”. Now, for all of us children of Rushdie, is a moving book about how oldness leaves it * New Statesman *

Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children - for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary - Shame, The Satanic Verses, Quichotte and Victory City. His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen’s last Birthday Honours list in 2022.