Downturn Abbey

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The barbarians may be at the gate of Ross's mock something-or-other mansion, but does he care? Does he fock? For everyone else things may be shrouded in gloom but amidst the splendour of our Killiney mansion, Honalee, life goes on. I've decided that it's time to possibly do right by Sorcha and put our marriage back together. Meanwhile my son has hitched his future to a family of commoners, my old dear is involved in a dodgy love affair, and my daughter has turned into an insufferable little madam. Oh, yeah, and I'm about to become a grandfather at 31. Suddenly I'm wresting with duty, loyalty ... and the thousands of women out there who still desire the pleasure of my company.

Keeping up with the Kalashnikovs is the fourteenth novel in Paul Howard's 'Ross O'Carroll-Kelly' series. Ross books - annual No 1 bestsellers - have sold over half a million copies, are annually nominated for the Popular Fiction prize at the Irish Book Awards - where they have won the prize an unprecedented three times - and are also critically acclaimed as satirical masterpieces. Titles include The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress, Should have Got off at Sydney Parade, This Champagne Mojito is the Last Thing I Own, Rhino What You Did Last Summer, NAMA Mia!, The Oh My God Delusion (chosen as Ireland's favourite book in Eason's 2011 125th birthday poll), The Shelbourne Ultimatum and Downturn Abbey.

Unremittingly funny * RTE Guide on The Shelbourne Ultimatum * The preeminent satirist of our times ... says more about contemporary Ireland than a whole Aosdana's-worth of state-of-the-nation authors * Irish Times * Paul Howard has brilliantly, seemingly effortlessly, catalogued the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger * Irish Independent *