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Long ago in Belfast everything was nice... Life is sweet for would-be bohemian Artie Conville. Safe at the helm of his subsidised magazine -- with a cosy office paid for by the tax-payer -- he's content to drift along quoting poetry, lingering over long lunches and flirting with the lovely Rosie McCann. The main thing is to keep the real world -- of nine-to-five jobs, mortgages and political violence at bay. So when his cushy number is threatened, Artie hatches a cunning plan to keep the funds coming in. But events quickly spiral out of control and before long he is up to his ears in a bizarre fraud. Can he avert disaster? Will he get the girl? With a cast of characters that includes a gun-toting playwright, a jealous police chief, a drunken actor and a giant white rabbit, this is a rich and riotous tale about coming-of-age in 1980s Belfast; a novel that is by turns darkly ironic and laugh-out-loud funny.
Longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize for New Fiction.
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Life is sweet for would-be bohemian Artie Conville. Safe at the helm of his subsidised magazine - with a cosy office paid for by the tax-payer - he's content to drift along quoting poetry, lingering over long lunches and flirting with the lovely Rosie McCann. The main thing is to keep the real world - of nine-to-five jobs, mortgages and political violence - at bay. So when his cushy number is threatened, Artie hatches a cunning plan to keep the funds coming in. But events quickly spiral out of control and before long he is up to his ears in a bizarre fraud. Can he avert disaster? Will he get the girl? With a cast of characters that includes a gun-toting playwright, a jealous police chief, a drunken actor and a giant white rabbit, this is a rich and riotous tale about coming-of-age in 1980s Belfast; a novel that is by turns darkly ironic and laugh-out-loud funny.
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'Terrific - very funny, acutely sharp.' --Simon Hoggart, The Guardian
'Jammy Dodger is a deliciously absurd, laugh-out-loud tale of a literary editor's farcical fall from grace and a glorious satire on the arts world. Suffice it to say, a jammy dodger will never offer innocent pleasure again.' --Daily Mail
A Bohemian Rhapsody.' --Sunday Times
'A hilarious slap-in-the-face satire' --Irish Times
'An imaginative comic novel of striking charm and wit.' --Metro Herald
'Jammy Dodger is a deliciously absurd, laugh-out-loud tale of a literary editor's farcical fall from grace and a glorious satire on the arts world. Suffice it to say, a jammy dodger will never offer innocent pleasure again.' --Daily Mail
A Bohemian Rhapsody.' --Sunday Times
'A hilarious slap-in-the-face satire' --Irish Times
'An imaginative comic novel of striking charm and wit.' --Metro Herald
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