“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

Sunday, September 30, 2007

The Best Things In Life Are Free … Books

Tana French’s In The Woods has been this year’s Irish publishing phenomenon, the ex-actress garnering a veritable rain-forest of big-up reviews on her way to pole-vaulting onto the New York Times best-seller list earlier this month. The good news is that In The Woods goes into mass market paperback release this week (jazzy new cover, right), and the better news is that Crime Always Pays – courtesy of the ever-lovely people at Hodder Headline Ireland – have three copies to give away. To be in with a chance of winning one, just tell us if the sequel to In The Woods will be called …
(a) The Similarity
(b) The Likeness
(c) The Virtually Indistinguishable Clone-Like Replication
Drop us a mail at the address in the top right of the blog, putting ‘Tana French competition’ in the subject line. And remember, people – if you’re not in, you can’t lose …

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