Braywatch

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Braywatch
Braywatch cover.jpg
Author Paul Howard
IllustratorAlan Clarke
Cover artistAlan Clarke
LanguageEnglish
Series Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
Genre Comic novel, satire
Set in Dublin and Bray, 2017 – 2018
Published3 September 2020, Sandycove [1]
Publication place Republic of Ireland
Media typePrint: paperback
Pages400
ISBN 9781844884490
823.92
Preceded by Schmidt Happens  
Followed by Normal Sheeple  

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]

Contents

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]

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References

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  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. 19 September 2020.
  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.