“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, June 23, 2008

The Best Things In Life Are Free … Books

It’s Norwegian week on Crime Always Pays, people, and courtesy of the lovely people at Faber and Faber we have three copies of K.O. Dahl’s THE FOURTH MAN and THE MAN IN THE WINDOW to give away. First, the blurb elves on THE FOURTH MAN:
In the course of a routine police raid, Detective Inspector Frank Frolich of the Oslo Police saves Elizabeth Faremo from getting inadvertently caught in crossfire. By the time he learns that she is the sister of Jonny Faremo, wanted member of a larceny gang, it is already too late – he is obsessed. Suspected, suspended and blindly in love, Frolich must find out if he is being used before his life unravels beyond repair.
Lovely jubbly. To be in with a chance of winning a brace of K.O. Dahl novels, just answer the following question.
Is The Muppet Show’s Swedish Chef known in Norway as:
(a) The Swedish Chef;
(b) The Danish Chef;
(c) The Italian Chef;
(d) I preferred Sesame Street, actually, but I’d really like some free books.
Answers via the comment box, with a contact email address (using (at) rather than @ to confound the spam-munchkins), before noon on Thursday, June 26. Et bon chance, mes amis

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

The correct answer is A. But the true answer is D, of course.

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Anonymous said...

In Norway he's still called the Swedish Chef. In Sweden however, he's called the Norwegian Chef.

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colman said...

dddddddddddddddddddd......oops must remember to releeeeeeeeeeeeease the keeeeys on theeeeeee keeeeeybooooooard

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Anonymous said...

Hi Dec

Have to go with :

d) I preferred Sesame Street, actually, but I’d really like some free books.

As I never say no to free books !


Fiona

fiona.mccartney(at)oceanfree.net

Anonymous said...

They don't talk about Swedes.

Unknown said...

of course the answer is D

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Anonymous said...

the answer, is a.
The Muppet Show was much better than sesame street. Gonzo, Animal, aha it brings back memories...Pigs is Space!!!

Allen McKay

allenmckay(at)hotmail.com

Seoman said...

It's a but d is also good answer.
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David Baynham said...

Well, he certainly isn't Swedish with that awful mock-Swedish manner of speech, so he must be known in Norway as a). I prefer the Muppets, but can't speak for my daughters

Anonymous said...

Oh well, more than three above me, just as well as I haven't a clue of the answer. And I need to read his previous books first anyway. Just trying to make myself feel better ;-) (not too harsh or dominatrix-like, either, more of a softly softly comment.)

Josh Schrank said...

Do the norwegians like Glenfiddich?

Anonymous said...

Who's he?

Anonymous said...

I don't have an effing clue what he's called. I just know he's all kinds'a funny! But, that's not why I'm throwing my name in the hat. I want to read about someplace COLD! The Texas Panhandle is nowhere for a delicate flower like me to be in the summer!

lawlis42(at)yahoo.com

Mack said...

a is the correct answer but but the free books part of "d" is my honest answer.
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