“Declan Burke is his own genre. The Lammisters dazzles, beguiles and transcends. Virtuoso from start to finish.” – Eoin McNamee “This bourbon-smooth riot of jazz-age excess, high satire and Wodehouse flamboyance is a pitch-perfect bullseye of comic brilliance.” – Irish Independent Books of the Year 2019 “This rapid-fire novel deserves a place on any bookshelf that grants asylum to PG Wodehouse, Flann O’Brien or Kyril Bonfiglioli.” – Eoin Colfer, Guardian Best Books of the Year 2019 “The funniest book of the year.” – Sunday Independent “Declan Burke is one funny bastard. The Lammisters ... conducts a forensic analysis on the anatomy of a story.” – Liz Nugent “Burke’s exuberant prose takes centre stage … He plays with language like a jazz soloist stretching the boundaries of musical theory.” – Totally Dublin “A mega-meta smorgasbord of inventive language ... linguistic verve not just on every page but every line.” – Irish Times “Above all, The Lammisters gives the impression of a writer enjoying himself. And so, dear reader, should you.” – Sunday Times “A triumph of absurdity, which burlesques the literary canon from Shakespeare, Pope and Austen to Flann O’Brien … The Lammisters is very clever indeed.” – The Guardian
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Breaking News: Edel Coffey In 'Sultry Fox DJ' Shocker!
Yep, we're loving John's multi-media attack ... jump here for his masterplan for world domination.
Friday, April 20, 2007
Funky Friday's Free-For-All: Peter Dragon Speaks!
Yep, it's Friday, which is funky, and thus it's a posting free-for-all ... Seems the general consensus among the literati seems to be that crime fiction is one rung up the ladder from your actual porn. Next time you hear it, point them in the direction of Action's Peter Dragon, seen here defending violent movies before a Senate Committee as only Peter can, to wit: "If I’m a malignancy and my movies are cancer, I hope the whole damn country gets cancer!" Roll it there, Collette ... See you on Monday, folks. Y'all come back now, y'hear?
The Big O: More Extracts Than A Dentist On Crystal Meth
* Not one feckin' request. Not a sausage. Crikey, would it have hurt you just to ask? Piss-ant, rhubarb, etc.
Cheer Up, Weepy Gene
Critical Mick: Evil Genius or Intellectual Dilettante? Discuss
Frank Pig Says Howdy-Doody, Again
This Week We're Reading ... The Deadly Percheron & The Wrong Kind of Blood
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Less Haste, Less Speed Dating, Please ...
Cormac Millar - Grazie, Il Mio Amico
New-ish Release: Loot, Thomas McShane
Russell Crowe to play Brant? Mmmm, scoopalicious!
"A Bruges Too Farrell?" Nope, that won't work either ...
Adrian White: A hard Rain's gonna fall
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
New Release: The Unquiet, John Connolly
Lost Classics # 27: Quinn, Seamus Smyth
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Sssshhh ... It's all so Unquiet
Galway: Tough on Crime, Tough on the Writers of Crime
The Banville Conundrum: When Johnald Met Donville
The Embiggened O
Ohmigod, they haven't killed off Kenny's
Kudos to Kenny's Online for making Ken Bruen's Cross their Book of the Week, given that it's, y'know, crime fiction. Eurocrime seems to be rather keen too ... "I cannot recommend this series highly enough", says Karen Chisholm, all the way from Oz. Which is nice. Read the full review here.
Declan Hughes: The good kind of Blood money
Gene Genie
Gene Kerrigan gets the hup-ya treatment from the New Yorker - sort of - for his latest, The Midnight Choir (Leonard Cohen in crime fiction title shocker? Mmmm, zenalicious). And proper order too - yon Midnight Choir's a sweet read with a triple-downer ending to boot. Which is nice ...
Talk about the Passion
Monday, April 16, 2007
God bless you, Mr Rosewater
One day Kurt Vonnegut is alive, the next he isn't. So it goes. The welcome home party on Tralfamadore should be just about hitting its stride right about now ...
Early days and all that ...
Okay, so we're just road-testing this posting-to-blog malarkey ... Declan Burke has just had his second novel published by Hag's Head Press, it's called The Big O, and the Mail on Sunday says "Elmore Leonard with a harder Irish edge". Which is nice ...