“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, May 2, 2007

Never Judge A Book Writer By His Cover: TS O'Rourke Speaks!

Don't know about you, but TS O'Rourke frightens the shite out of us. So when we mustered the courage to ask, 'Anything cooking over there, Mr O'Rourke, sir?' and he answered, "I'm working on a Dublin-based crime novel right now, it's a real dirty book, great fun to write ... especially the research ... hur-hur-hur," we immediately feared for the ordinary decent civilians of Dublin. But lo! Seems TS isn't so scary after all! Even the rather salubrious Dublin Quarterly thinks so! Which is nice.

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