“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

Monday, September 3, 2007

The Guns Of Brixton

Calling all festival junkies: the TCM Crime Scene jamboree kicks off in London on Friday, September 6, centring on the Ritzy Brixton and focusing on ‘the wealth of film and literature that has crime as its central theme’, and the word around the elves’ meagre campfire is that Quentin Tarantino (above right) will be in town. Can you confirm or deny, O festival director for literary input and all-round crime fiction demi-god, Mr Maxim Jakubowski, sir?
“Yes, he is, as our closing night feature will also be the British premiere of Death Proof. We also have five other Brit firsts on film-side and Lynda La Plante, Fred Vargas, Mark Billingham, Val McDermid, Colin Bateman, Natasha Cooper, Ruth Rendell, Martina Cole, David Suchet, Philip Glenister (from Life on Mars), Nigel McCrery on the books / acting front, plus a Claude Chabrol and A.E. Bezzerides retrospectives.”
Thank ’ee kindly, sir. Incidentally, the premiere of Death Proof will be screened at the Ritzy Brixton, and beamed to cinemas across the UK via satellite. Let’s hope the punters are a little more impressed than our very own movie-reviewing elf, Michael McGowan …
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