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From the Back Cover
There are 750,000 Irish living in London. One of them has to get out. For good.
Summer 1999. Only 157 shopping days until the new millennium and for Bic (half-Irish, half-Scots and half-cut), who ekes out a living selling crˆpes to the hordes descending on Greenwich market, the year 2000 can't come quick enough. One severed ear, two bizarre deaths and the arrest of his dog for civil disobedience - so far Bic's annus has been pretty horribilis.
But a silver, or rather, a raven-haired lining appears in the guise of Roisin. She's from Home, she's heart-stoppingly beautiful and she's taken the stall opposite Bic's. Despite her over-protective brothers, things are definitely looking up.
At least they were until Bic wakes up the-morning-after-the-night-before, in his clothes, in Edinburgh, to find he's the UK's Most Wanted Man - on the run and with fourteen murders to his name.
A glorious comic thriller bursting with outrageous shenanigans, shot-to-pieces with black humour, while retaining a heart of gold, London Irish introduces a singular and entertaining new literary voice. Zane Radcliffe recently won the WHSmith 'People's Choice' Award 2003 for best newcomer.
Daily Record
‘There have been some outstanding debuts this summer, but in the comic thriller genre 'London Irish' is undoubtedly the best new title of the year. It rocks!’
Bookseller ‘ Madcap comic crime in the vein of James Hawes or early Colin Bateman’
Irish Tatler ‘Brilliant, shocking and very, very funny.’
What’s On in London ‘Radcliffe’s writing is technically skilled , evoking the image of a child playing with bits on a bomb site.’
Amazon Christopher Brookmyre meets Nick Hornby in ‘McCarthy’s Bar’.
Belfast Telegraph
‘A rattling good yarn with quirky characters, pithy humour and a bagful of bizarre twists...this is someone who can tell a story’
Colin Bateman
‘Very fresh, very funny. I laughed until I stopped’
Irish News
‘A fast-paced, darkly comic thriller’
Nzoom ‘A Hitchcock-style “wrong man” thriller … London Irish is a fresh, thoroughly enjoyable first novel.’
County Down Spectator ‘ Every page is packed with humour, a pintful of the blackest stuff.’
Some Norwegian Website
‘Fantastisk morsom thriller!’
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