'A magnificent novel' -- Sunday Telegraph 'As vivid as any of the films he has written and directed ... a dazzling demonstration of Jordan's ability to express himself in words as well as images' -- Financial Times 'A lyrical, tender book ... Jordan writes with tremendous sensuality' -- Guardian 'Powerful and affecting' -- John Banville, Observer

Neil Jordan's fiction has been widely acclaimed. 'Night in Tunisia', winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize, will also be reissued in May 2004. As a director, his films include 'The Company of Wolves', 'The End of the Affair', and 'The Crying Game', which won him an Oscar for Best Screenplay. His new novel, SHADE, is simultaneously published by John Murray in May 2004.