Game of Throw-ins

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Game of Throw-ins
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Author Paul Howard
IllustratorAlan Clarke
Cover artistAlan Clarke
Country Republic of Ireland
LanguageEnglish
Series Ross O'Carroll-Kelly
Set in Dublin, 2014–15
Published8 September 2016
Publisher Penguin Books
Pages400
ISBN 9781844883455
823.92
Preceded by Seedless in Seattle  
Followed by Operation Trumpsformation  

Game of Throw-ins is a 2016 book by Irish author Paul Howard and is the sixteenth novel in the Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

The title refers to the TV series Game of Thrones and the rugby throw-in. [4]

Plot

Ross joins a struggling Seapoint rugby team. Ronan is in a turf war with a rival Love/Hate tour operator. Honor is in love with a Justin Bieber lookalike. Fionnuala is marrying a 92-year-old billionaire. [5]

Reception

The Irish Times praised it, saying "This is sharp satire that manages the difficult trick of creating characters we care about. It is a very funny book, often hilarious, providing storylines that mostly keep the page-turning going. Yet it has a genuine heart of darkness hidden beneath the layers of craic, great gags, great storytelling and human warmth. In this way, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is Ireland." [6]

Anne Gildea, also in The Irish Times, wrote that "I’m in love with the latest Ross O’Carroll-Kelly – Game of Throw-ins. The passage where Ross is confused, mid-match, about the line-out codes the captain has assigned is one of the funniest things I’ve come across in print." [7]

The Irish Independent 's Tanya Sweeney wrote that "the entertaining fun of this SoCoDu satire has clearly yet to wane."

Trinity College Dublin's tn2 Magazine awarded it 3/5, saying that it was "not the best title in the series, but it’s a solid entry nonetheless. The overarching themes of time, change and broken families are balanced perfectly against the hilarious antics of Ross and his lunatic family." [8]

Game of Throw-ins was nominated for Irish Independent Popular Fiction Book of the Year at the 2016 Irish Book Awards. [9] [10] [11]

It was the third-bestselling book at WH Smith in Ireland for 2016. [12] [13] It sold 23,997 copies in 2016 overall. [14]

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