‘You want music from the inside and a mad sprawl of a book that evokes it every which way, buy this award-winning British writer's only novel…Tendentious, impolite, enthralled. As music writing it's stone brilliant’

Robert Christgau, Village Voice

‘The setting is the fictional African country of N’Galam to which protagonist Andrew “Litch” Litchfield, independent record company A&R man, hustler and world music authority travels to meet his main act, Sajar Jopp. N’Galam is Dakar down to the clubs and hotels and West African musicians stalking the city’s mean streets…a hugely enjoyable read. Hudson’s writing crackles’

Mike Pattenden, The Times

Funny, scary, pulsing with energy, The Music in my Head is one of the best novels ever written about popular music.

‘Brilliantly defies categorisation because it’s so rich in every vein it explores… Thrillingly visceral: you can taste, smell and hear Africa on every page’

Max Reinhardt, Radio 3 Late Junction

‘A powerful and assured work, and a compelling, enjoyable read... This is an inspired and entertaining book about a cynical man in a squalid world, uplifted and destroyed by a deluded obsession for music. It is wry, honest and true’

Ross Fortune, Time Out

'An admirably uncomfortable read: a microcosmic preview of what post-colonial "reconciliation" will mean in the post-millennial world' 

Charles Shaar Murray, Independent