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]

Braywatch
AuthorPaul Howard
IllustratorAlan Clarke
Cover artistAlan Clarke
CountryRepublic of Ireland
LanguageEnglish
SeriesRoss O'Carroll-Kelly
GenreComic novel, satire
Set inDublin and Bray, 2017 – 2018
Published3 September 2020, Sandycove[1]
Media typePrint: paperback
Pages400
ISBN9781844884490
823.92
Preceded bySchmidt Happens 
Followed byNormal Sheeple 

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
  1. McDermott, Stephen (20 October 2020). "Keelin Shanley, Luke O'Neill and Mary McAleese among this year's Irish Book Awards nominees". TheJournal.ie.
  2. "The title of the new Ross O'Carroll-Kelly book has been revealed and it's inspired". LovinDublin.com.
  3. O'Carroll-Kelly, Ross (27 May 2021). Braywatch. www.penguin.co.uk.
  4. O'Carroll-Kelly, Ross (3 September 2020). Braywatch. Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 9781844884506 – via Google Books.
  5. "55 new books you should keep an eye out for this autumn". Her.ie.
  6. "Braywatch". Dubray Books.
  7. https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/bray-people/20200422/281539408099422 – via PressReader. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. Hendicott, James (11 September 2020). "D4 cliche Ross O'Carroll Kelly has finest hour in newest book".
  9. Doyle, Martin (11 June 2020). "Louise Kennedy, Niamh Campbell, Adrian McKinty and Michelle Gallen shortlisted". The Irish Times. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
  10. "A shortlist of the Post Irish Book Awards 2020 has been..." AlKhaleej Today. 20 October 2020.


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