Declan Burke: You Snooze, You Win

“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.; April 12, 2008 at 5:29 PM
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; April 12, 2008 at 7:38 PM
Josh Schrank said...: All I want to know is, who smiles while he sleeps??; April 13, 2008 at 10:11 PM
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; April 14, 2008 at 6:52 AM
Anonymous said...: See, I told you what watching too much Liverpool would do.

Haydo; April 14, 2008 at 9:24 AM
Declan Burke said...: Ah, the sabre-rattling of a Filthenfuhrer fan who knows the dread spectre of Moscow approacheth ... BRING. IT. ON. Cheers, Dec; April 15, 2008 at 7:05 AM
Josh Schrank said...: um.... Dec, no meaning no offense here or anything, but um.. are you sure you don't drink??; April 15, 2008 at 1:22 PM
Declan Burke said...: Josh - No offence taken, sir ... I do drink, just not whiskey. Or brandy. Guinness, though, that's the ticket ... Cheers, Dec; April 15, 2008 at 3:05 PM