'A wild, sleazy, drug-filled odyssey ... Doyle's maverick novel deserves the accolades coming its way' Independent'The best work to date from a writer who gets better and better with each release' Irish Indepdendent'A masterclass in what not to do' New Statesman'His best book so far: riddling, irreverent, fearless' TLSRob has spent most of his confusing adult...

Meet Matthew, Rez, Cocker and Kearney. Facing the void of their post-school lives, the boys spend their first summer of freedom in a savage apprenticeship on the streets of Dublin. Roaming aimlessly through the city, fuelled by drugs and dark fantasies, the teenagers spiral into self-destruction, fleeing a reality they despise.Here Are the Young Men portrays a chilling spiritual fallout, harbinger of the collapse of a national illusion. Visceral and blackly funny, this deb...

The new novel from Irish Book Award-shortlisted author Rob Doyle: a daring comedy and dazzling meditation on fiction and reality'Like Swift before him, Rob Doyle is a social satirist of the highest order . . . Cameo is provocative, transgressive, grimly hilarious, and it surely can't be long until he spawns his own adjective. 'Doylean'? Don't rule it out' BENJAMIN MYERS**'Where I come from, when something is called mad it's often a...

'Doyle is as good as everyone – from John Boyne to Colm Tóibín – says he is' Daily MailA young man in a dark depression roams the vast, formless landscape of a Dublin industrial park where he meets a vagrant in the grip of a dangerous ideology. A woman fleeing a break-up finds herself taking part in an unusual sleep experiment. A man obsessed with Nietzsche clings desperately to his girlfriend's red shoes. And whatever happened to Killian Turner, Ireland's...

'Charmingly provocative' Observer'A smorgasbord of delights' Irish Times'Addictive … a writer living and thinking his way to the frontiers of human society' The SpectatorIn Autobibliography, Rob Doyle recounts a year spent rereading fifty-two books – from the Dhammapada and Marcus Aurelius to Robert Bolaño and Svetlana Alexievich – as well as the memories they trigger and the reverberations they create. It is a reco...

"A tremendous talent. Every page fizzes with vitality." --Kevin Barry, author of BeatleboneA young man in a dark depression roams the vast, formless landscape of a Dublin industrial park where he meets a vagrant in the grip of a dangerous ideology. A woman fleeing a breakup finds herself taking part in an unusual sleep experiment. A man obsessed with Nietzsche clings desperately to his girlfriend's red shoes. And whatever happened to Killian Turner, Irelan...

"Threshold, or, how I learned to stop worrying (about what sort of novel this is) and love the narrator, whose brilliance and humor on drugs and literature, sex and boredom and death, leave me in awe." -Rachel Kushner"Fearless and challenging, inventive and compulsive, unique and utterly heartfelt." -John Boyne"Daring and deranged, endlessly entertaining, furiously funny." -Geoff Dyer"Playful, poten...