“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, May 10, 2008

“Here’s One We Made Earlier …”

Huzzah! The official 90-second trailer for Anton, a movie for which we have very high hopes despite the fact that it’s executive produced by professional mentaller Pat McArdle (right, in full-on The Hills Have Eyes mode), has hit the interweb highway and not a moment too soon. For lo! The chaps and chapesses behind Anton are swanning off to Cannes, no less, there to disport themselves shamelessly with ingénues and generally act the proverbial maggot. If you do happen to be in the vicinity of Cannes in the week starting May 18, get yourself along to the Palais Des Festivals Theatre K at noon, where the world premiere of Anton will be taking place. Oh, and be sure not to mention Crime Always Pays sent you, they’ll only call the gendarmes. Roll it there, Collette …

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