Braywatch
Braywatch is a 2020 book by Irish journalist and author Paul Howard and is the twentieth novel in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series.[2][3][4][5]
Author | Paul Howard |
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Illustrator | Alan Clarke |
Cover artist | Alan Clarke |
Country | Republic of Ireland |
Language | English |
Series | Ross O'Carroll-Kelly |
Genre | Comic novel, satire |
Set in | Dublin and Bray, 2018 – 2019 |
Published | 3 September 2020, Sandycove[1] |
Media type | Print: paperback |
Pages | 400 |
ISBN | 9781844884490 |
823.92 | |
Preceded by | Schmidt Happens |
The title refers to the town of Bray, County Wicklow and the TV show Baywatch.[6]
Plot
Ross has become rugby coach at Presentation College, Bray. His daughter Honor has become a Greta Thunberg-style environmentalist.[7]
Reception
Writing in the Dublin Gazette, James Hendicott said that Braywatch was "exactly the kind of ludicrous frivolity that today’s Dublin needs" and that Ross is "so well-written that it’s hard to truly work out if his lack of self awareness, selfishness and deeply spoilt view on life actually make him a bad person, or just a fiercely misguided and unfaithful one who’s a little too stupid to understand fully how disgraceful he is."[8]
Braywatch was nominated for Popular Fiction Book of the Year at the 2020 Irish Book Awards.[9][10]
References
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- "The title of the new Ross O'Carroll-Kelly book has been revealed and it's inspired". LovinDublin.com.
- O'Carroll-Kelly, Ross. "Braywatch". www.penguin.co.uk.
- O'Carroll-Kelly, Ross (3 September 2020). Braywatch. Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 9781844884506 – via Google Books.
- "55 new books you should keep an eye out for this autumn". Her.ie.
- "Braywatch". Dubray Books.
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- Hendicott, James (11 September 2020). "D4 cliche Ross O'Carroll Kelly has finest hour in newest book".
- Doyle, Martin (11 June 2020). "Louise Kennedy, Niamh Campbell, Adrian McKinty and Michelle Gallen shortlisted". The Irish Times. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
- "A shortlist of the Post Irish Book Awards 2020 has been..." AlKhaleej Today. 20 October 2020.