'An excellent novel...Jonah, the deformed hero, is a sort of Napoleon of the gutter...[Stone's book is] a valuable and original contribution to Australian fiction.' Sydney Morning Herald 'With one book...Stone has put himself in the front rank of Australian authorship.' -- A. G. Stephens 'Jonah is a book in which every page, as a novelist said to me lately, feels written. What that means is, I think, that the words are not slammed down in a hit-or-miss fashion. The author has felt aware that he has only, let us say, about ninety thousand words to use, and that there must be no waste pages, no dead paragraphs, no words that a mere counters...[Jonah is] a book extraordinarily well written.' -- Nettie Palmer The Brisbane Mail