“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, March 21, 2016

Publication: BLACK ROSE DAYS by Martin Malone

Martin Malone is an author, screenwriter, short story writer and memoirist – and a former military policeman with the Irish Army. His latest novel, BLACK ROSE DAYS, is published by New Island. To wit:
‘He beat her. Broke skin, left her needing stitches, and begged his sister to furnish him with an alibi. My husband. What on earth have I married? A dormant monster?’
  Secrets, once disturbed, can ruin a life that has been spent trying to hide them. Two voices – one living, one dead – compete to find the truth behind the unsolved murder of Ena Tierney, committed thirty-one years ago on the Curragh Plains. Dan Somers, Ena’s husband and the chief suspect at the time of the murder, returns to Ireland in an attempt to clear his name once and for all and uncover what has been left hidden for far too long. As Dan learns of the events surrounding Ena’s death, a great turbulence roars to life that will consume everything – and everyone – in its path.
  A gripping and disturbing mystery, BLACK ROSE DAYS is the latest powerful work by Martin Malone, one of Ireland’s finest storytellers.

Martin Malone is an Irish novelist and short story writer. His novel, The Broken Cedar, was nominated for the 2003 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Us won the John B. Keane/Sunday Independent Award and his short story, ‘The Mango War’, won the RTÉ Francis MacManus Award in 2004. Martin’s work has also won the Killarney International Short Story Prize and was twice shortlisted for both a Hennessy Award and a P. J. O’Connor Award. Martin worked as a military policeman with the Irish Army, under the flag of the United Nations. He served five tours of duty in Lebanon and one in Iraq.
  BLACK ROSE DAYS is published on March 31st. For more, clickety-click here …
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