Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Breakfast at Cannibal Joe's - Jay Spencer Green

Breakfast at Cannibal Joe's

By: Jay Spencer Green

Paperback | 20 July 2015

At a Glance

Paperback


$39.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $9.94 with

 or 

Ships in 15 to 25 business days

A dystopian comedy with a difference. "Makes the Hunger Games look like Hungry Hippos. Makes 50 Shades of Grey look like Polyanna." The Bloomfield Review says, "Like an obnoxious spy-comedy seen through the eyes of a filthy drunk ... The language can be absurdly, almost heroically obscene." The TBR Pile says, "Bonkers. Weird. Surreal. Satirical. Politically incorrect. Clever. Absurd. Witty. Disgusting." It's debauched, depraved, delirious, delightful. Voted No. 6 in the Top 50 Indie Books of 2015. Winner of the 2015 Lord of the Book Covers award.

Joe Chambers is a CIA operative working in Dublin. Assigned to an agency-fronted publishing house, his problems include, but are not limited to, errant MI6 agents, insane profit-making schemes, a Francoist dwarf, and a tapeworm named Steve. He is an utterly reprehensible character, fond of submerging his head in a sink-full of whiskey and fantasising about brutally murdering irritating teenagers. He is, in other words, the perfect guide to this bizarre and repulsive journey into Dublin's gutters.

Jay Spencer Green presents a twisted and exaggerated, but wholly recognisable vision of Dublin. A place of suicide bombings, mass canine culling in the Phoenix Park, "cheap Moore Street socks (35 euros for 6 pairs)", online divorce, and enough red tape and bureaucracy to drive a man to murder. A place where "cat's cheese salad" and a dubious pork/human hybrid meat share the menu. It is a Dublin of no redemption.

A raucous mix of double crosses, brothels, triple crosses, and cocktail recipes, Breakfast at Cannibal Joe's is a dark, twisted, and picaresque tale, a transgressive black comedy like no other.

"Funny, shocking. Demands to be read."Arthur Smith, comedian, writer, and broadcaster

"Too clever by half. Too funny by three and five-eighths."Niamh Greene, author, The Secret Diary of a Demented Housewife, Coco's Secret

"Savagely funny and deftly anarchic, Jay Spencer Green's writing is as exquisite as it is deliciously dangerous."Lisa McInerney, author, The Glorious Heresies

"Witty, acerbic, and wired to words."William Wall, author, This is the Country, Ghost Estate

"The comic writing of Jay Spencer Green always makes me laugh out loud."Karl Whitney, author, Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin

You Can Find This Book In

More in Modern & Contemporary Fiction

Pilbara - Judy Nunn

Paperback

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF
People We Meet On Vacation - Emily Henry

RRP $24.99

$19.99

20%
OFF
The Ten Year Affair - Erin Somers

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF
Rytual - Chloe Elisabeth Wilson

Paperback

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
Among the Burning Flowers : Take your first steps into the epic - Samantha Shannon
Gachiakuta 8 : Gachiakuta - Kei Urana

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
Art on Fire - Yun Ko-eun

Paperback

RRP $29.99

$24.99

17%
OFF
Might Cry Later : A hilarious, romantic, messy, autistic story - Kay Kerr
The Mad Wife : A Novel - Meagan Church

RRP $29.99

$24.99

17%
OFF
Some Bright Nowhere - Ann Packer

RRP $32.99

$26.99

18%
OFF
The Ragpicker King : The Chronicles of Castellane Book 2 - Cassandra Clare
The Island of Last Things - Emma Sloley

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF
Big Kiss, Bye-Bye - Claire-Louise Bennett

RRP $26.99

$22.99

15%
OFF
Between Sisters - Kristin Hannah

RRP $34.99

$19.99

43%
OFF

This product is categorised by