| Oxford University. His first novel, Divorcing Jack, won theBetty Trask Prize in 1994.Praise for Divorcing Jack'A joy from start to finish... Witty, fast-paced and throbbingwith menace, Divorcing Jack reads like The Thirty-Nine Stepsrewritten for the '90s by Roddy Doyle'Time Out'As sharp as a pint of snakebite... Richly paranoid and veryfunny, and it manages to say more about the Troubles in 280vivid pages than reams of earnest reportage ever could' Sunday Times'As fine a black comedy thriller as has emerged from this sideof the Atlantic in years' GQPraise for Cycle of ViolenceFast-paced, very black and very funny: Roddy Doyle meetsCarl Hiaasen'Independent on Sunday'Terrific, mordant wit and a fine sense of the ridiculous . . .the writing is great' Evening Standard'Bateman's is the ultimate word on the insanity of the Troubles:no one has done it better' Scotland on Sunday |
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