"One blazing hot June day last year, Geoffrey Alderman stepped up to a podium, lit a touchpaper and watched it ignite." http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/oct/20/higher-education-standards
Review in Times Higher Education http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=408458&c=2 "What is most attractive is the tone of Alderman's natural voice. He has a rare ability to float above stylistic expectations, producing a fluid textual mix of the academic, the idiomatic, the conversational and the Yiddish."