“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

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

The Missing In Action

Rejoice, o ye legion-like fans of Paul Kilduff (right) – the city slicker returns to the bookshelves next year with The Missing, in which a motley crew of investigators go in search of mysteriously vanished London lawyers, bankers and their ilk on an odyssey that takes them from London to Germany and on to the hedonistic fleshpots of Marbella. Huzzah! In other news, the former Headhunter is also diversifying into non-fiction with Ruinair, a humorous look at the world of cheap air travel, the title of which has absolutely no relevance whatsoever to any particular low-fare airline, o ye legion-like eagle-eyed lawyers. Anyhoo, you can catch The Missing in action if you jump over here, including all the blurb and an extract from the prologue. Which is nice …

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