Paul Murray

Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, The Bee Sting is a tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart. The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car dealership is going under, and while his wife is frantically selling off her jewellery on eBay, he's busy building an apocalypse-proof...

Marvellous, witty, heartbreaking, intensely moving, excellent. The writing is second to none, the banter brilliant. Crazy, but beautiful — Daily Telegraph Skippy Dies begins with Skippy and Ruprecht having a doughnut-eating race one evening when Skippy turns purple and falls off his chair. This sets the stage for an epic, tragic, comic, and brilliant novel set in and around Dublin's...