"This addictive book gives the oyster its cultural, historical, scientific and nutritional due."
— The Times (London)
"Part of Reaktion's superb animal series, Stott's book doesn't disappoint. Intelligently written and lavishly illustrated, Oyster is a feast for the eyes and mind."
— P.D. Smith, The Guardian
"The book is full of great facts, quirky stories and the obligatory--but in this case entertaining--chapter on seduction."
— Delicious
"marvellous ... The most luxuriously illustrated volume yet in the Reaktion 'Animal' series ... Treat yourself to a dozen oysters, a bottle of Chablis and this delicious book."
— Todd McEwen, The Glasgow Herald
"This little book... is bursting with amusing oyster anecdotes."
— Waitrose Food Illustrated
"This fascinating, beautifully produced and illustrated account is based on worldwide scholarship enlivened by some pretty saucy stuff... Altogether, this is a sucucculent little book. Tuck in!--John Jollife, Country Life
— John Jollife, Country Life
"Her well-researched Oyster dazzles with its breadth of details and observations. . . . An ambitious undertaking . . . . Stott's Oyster pleases the reader with its wealth of information, its prodigious research into the zoological aspects of the androgynous mollusk, and its sure-hand appraisal of oyster literature and lore. . . . commendable study."
— Joan Reardon, Gastronomica
"Happily, Storr's account includes a rigorous awareness of oysters as living beings, more than mere playthigns for the human palate. Complementing the natural history (and the cultural history too) are Reaktion's trademark luminous illustrations. . . . If each volume pleases as much as does Oyster, I'll soon need a new bookshelf built. . . . I defy anyone to emerge from a reading of Oyster with indifference intact."
— Barbara J. King, Bookslut
"I'm addicted to London-based Reaktion Books's Animal Series . . . [the books in the series] offer sumptuous portions of natural and cultural history so surprising and visually gorgeous that readers will never again see the book's focal animal in the way they had before."-—Barbara J. King, Bookslut
— Bookslut