Reviews: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, THE SLAP is the most talked-about novel of 2010, and looks set to be the most read book of 2011.

Mass market edition of Tsiolkas' controversial, bestselling novel. Depicts the fallout of a slap administered to a child by a non-family member at a suburban barbecue in Melbourne. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, it won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book. This will be supported by Atlantic's biggest ever marketing campaign. It's also up for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award! 'Honestly, one of the three or four truly great novels of the new millennium.' John Boyne