“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, April 12, 2008

You Snooze, You Win

A Minister for Propaganda Elf writes: Gerard Brennan will very probably claim that the pic above has been photo-shopped, but the elves are reliably informed that this is a rare and genuine shot of the Grand Vizier and Princess Lilyput taking a siesta together amidst the plush cushions of the Japanese Gardens, which are overlooked by the western wing of CAP Towers and thus susceptible to a sneaky member of the paparazzi (aka Mrs Grand Vizier) taking a crafty snap. Rest assured that the Grand Vizier’s caffeine-fuelled, 24/7 perusal of the Irish crime fiction ‘scene’, and Lilyput’s feed-parp-read-sleep routine, will resume shortly …

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cute.

Gerard Brennan said...

Oh, aye. That's photo-shopped all right. The laptop and six-pack of Red Bull having been cropped out of the left hand side of the pic.

Well worth the effort though. Very convincing and awwww inducing.

gb

Josh Schrank said...

All I want to know is, who smiles while he sleeps??

Declan Burke said...

Josh - It looks like the GV is smiling, but it's just a case of trapped wind ... Apparently he won't learn to smile for another couple of months yet ... Cheers, Dec

Anonymous said...

See, I told you what watching too much Liverpool would do.

Haydo

Declan Burke said...

Ah, the sabre-rattling of a Filthenfuhrer fan who knows the dread spectre of Moscow approacheth ... BRING. IT. ON. Cheers, Dec

Josh Schrank said...

um.... Dec, no meaning no offense here or anything, but um.. are you sure you don't drink??

Declan Burke said...

Josh - No offence taken, sir ... I do drink, just not whiskey. Or brandy. Guinness, though, that's the ticket ... Cheers, Dec