Nobber

Nobber is hallucinatory and sly, conjuring a densely strange and savagely captivating world. There are lots of novels, and there are lots of novels that are all much alike, but there is nothing like Nobber - Colin Barrett

Amid a strange, dark tale come glimpses of a striking new talent … gives us plenty of glimpses of Fagan’s literary talent - The Times

A highly anticipated debut - RTE Guide

Pestilence, the Black Death and comedy combine to bemusing and occasionally potent effect in this debut novel from the rising star of Oisin Fagan … Nobber is a lively and mischievous work that does a wonderful job of painting pictures for us of abject horror and suffering right before turning them over on to their backs to reveal soft comedic underbellies - Irish Independent

Utterly original, yet reminiscent of Flann O’Brien or Eimar O’Duffy. Nobber is the work of a fierce imagination and an even fiercer pen - Meath Chronicle

A writer out to do whatever the hell he wants … a grisly, gross-out slice of medieval life and death, it’s vigorously, writhingly itself, spilling out of any box you put it in - Observer

All tremendously good fun: if noir whimsy and highfalutin’ bawdiness are your thing, you will find a chortle-worthy moment on every couple of pages … As a work of narrative fiction resembling a cross between a medieval picaresque, a children’s adventure story and one of the ‘historical’ Carry On films, Nobber occupies the intersection of a Venn diagram nobody even knew existed. Fagan is a skilled storyteller with a rich command of language and rare comedic flair - Irish Times

A bloody and brilliant first novel … a dark and bloody tale, well leavened with bone-dry humour, and with a dramatic climax that has about it the flavour of a Jacobean tragedy - Guardian