‘Watership Down is stunning, compulsive reading.’

– Sunday Times

'A great book. A whole world is created, perfectly real in itself, yet constituting a deep incidental comment on human affairs.'

– Guardian

‘This beautifully written and intensely moving story is the work of an extraordinary imagination.’

– Sunday Telegraph

‘An impressive, immensely readable story, held together over 400 pages by a powerful imagination that soon forbids disbelief.’

– New Statesman

'A gripping story of rebellion in a rabbit warren and the subsequent adventures of the rebels. Adams has a poetic eye and a gift for storytelling which will speak to readers of all ages for many years to come.'

– Sunday Times

'A masterpiece. The best story about wild animals since The Wind in the Willows. Very funny, exciting, often moving.'

– Evening Standard

‘This lovely, lovely novel will join those classics which preserve the simpler joys... and there is the wonder of the English countryside, seen with the ground-level detail of a rabbit’s eye and ear and nose, the scent and savour of short, sweet grass, the aromatic tiny wild plants, their names used like charms.’

– Monica Dickens

‘Quite marvelous... A powerful new vision of the great chain of being.’

– New York Times Book Review

‘A classic... A great book.’

– Los Angeles Times

‘Spellbinding...Marvelous...A taut tale of suspense, hot pursuit and derring-do.’

– Chicago Tribune