“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

Friday, May 11, 2007

Goodbye, Queen Of Hearts ... Hello Eoin McNamee!

An eclectic chap, that Eoin McNamee: when he's not writing spy-vs-spy potboilers as John Creed, or children's fiction in a fantasy vein, he's knocking out the occasional top-class crime thriller, such as Resurrection Man, The Blue Tango and The Ultras. So it's entirely appropriate that his next novel, due in June, is 12:23: Paris. 31st August 1997 - a date that may or may not ring a bell with fans of the former Queen of All Our Achy-Breaky Hearts, aka Diana, the Princess of Wails, sorry, Wales. "Utterly compelling, McNamee's dramatising of the conspiracies and the obsessions around the tragic events of that night is brilliant and, as ever, poetic," says David Peace. Which is nice ...

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