Here Comes Trouble

Critics Review

• Clear-eyed and caustic… Nineteen Eighty-Four crossed with Adrian Mole

  Daily Mail

• Often very funny and always pacy, Wroe’s novel is at once a capering Bildungsroman and a serious examination of how easily democracy can crumble if the institutions and morals that keep it robust are attacked

  Sunday Times

• I loved this rollercoaster of a ride into a corrupt, fictitious country that feels only too hideously real. Highly recommended

  Deborah Moggach, author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

• Scarily prophetic about news, freedom and truth. Whip smart and very funny

  Antonia Hodgson, author of The Devil in Marshalsea

• Take Sacha Baron Cohen, add a twist of Kafka and lace it with Groucho Marx. You’re entering the surreal and blackly funny world of Simon Wroe. A brilliant novel by a very special writer

  Miranda Seymour

• A tour de force. A page-dazzler. A dark dream that may come true

  Piers Plowright

• Far funnier than any account of approaching far-right revolution has the right to be. Highly recommended

  John Higgs

• Crammed full of funny lines, dazzlingly perceptive and witty

  Claire McGowan, author of the Paula Maguire novels

• As resonant as Orwell’s 1984

  Vine Voice

• 1984 brought up to date with teenage black humour and hormones

  Vine Voice

• ‘Raucous and inventive, peopled with technicolour characters and savagely funny, Chop Chop announces Simon Wroe as both an heir to Martin Amis and an oven-fresh talent unto himself’

  A D Miller on Chop Chop

• Depicts the literal underworld of a restaurant kitchen with wit, vigor, and gleeful, necessary profanity

  New York Times on Chop Chop

• Dark, pungent, twisted, surprising and above all genuinely funny. If you enjoy eating out, don’t read this book

  William Sutcliffe on Chop Chop

• Perfectly baked [with] a rich, gooey pool of dark comedy hiding beneath the surface

  Independent on Chop Chop

• Brutally funny… Sometimes the truth is so strange it needs to be sautéed in a pan of fiction

  Gary Shteyngart on Chop Chop

• Dave Eggers channels Anthony Bourdain

  Kirkus on Chop Chop

• A complete page-turner. Reminiscent of Kitchen Confidential but with an entirely fresh voice that is a pleasure to read

  Thomasina Miers on Chop Chop

• A greasy, hilarious tale of loyalty, revenge and dark appetites. A gripping look behind the kitchen wall

  Shortlist on Chop Chop

• Brace yourself for this lively, amusing and alarmingly informative novel

  Daily Mail on Chop Chop

• A great kitchen novel. From describing the battle-scarred hands of a chef to the overall rhythm that goes into making every plate of food, Wroe . . . makes this ugly world delicious

  Book of the Week, Flavorwire, on Chop Chop

• Lip-smacking . . . As shocking and witty as it is savage

  Vogue on Chop Chop

• sets out comically and satirically what can happen when the rules break down

  ISLINGTON TRIBUNE