For many years, Dan Starkey has been a journalist of some repute - mainly ill. Now he is back with his wife Patricia, and while they try for a baby he is aiming to keep himself out of trouble. Had he not been caught in a rather awkward position when he received a phonecall from Big Davie Kincaird, he might not have decided to return to the village of Groomsport. And had he not drunk too much in order to cover the awkwardness of seeing this friend he hasn't known for 25 years, he might not have found himself agreeing to go on honeymoon...in Florida...for three weeks...with Big Davie. What else could possibly go wrong?
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'Extremely funny, brilliantly dark, addictively readable and possibly Colin Bateman's best book to date' Loaded -- Loaded 20040401 'Bateman writes with the potential danger of a sharpened steel comb. This novel is immediate, adult, mad and often hilarious' Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 3/4/04 -- Huddersfield Daily Examiner 20040403 'Fast and furious... Laugh-a-minute lad lit' Daily Mirror 26/3/04 -- Daily Mirror 20040326 'A fast-paced, violent tale of law-breaking brilliance' Zoo magazine 25/3/04 -- Zoo magazine 20040325 'Bateman is the funniest writer Ireland has produced since Roddy Doyle' Irish Post, 17/4/04 -- Irish Post 20040417 'A book to make us all feel just that little bit happier about simply being alive' Word magazine, June 2004 -- Word magazine 20040601 '[DRIVING BIG DAVIE has] one of the most arresting opening paragraphs in modern fiction' Birmingham Post, 29/05/04 -- Birmingham Post 20040529 'Extremely funny, brilliantly dark, addictively readable and possibly Colin Bateman's best book to date' Loaded -- Loaded 20040401 'Fast and furious... Laugh-a-minute lad lit' Daily Mirror 26/3/04 -- Daily Mirror 20040326 'Bateman is the funniest writer Ireland has produced since Roddy Doyle' Irish Post, 17/4/04 -- Irish Post 20040417
About the Author
Colin Bateman was a journalist in Northern Ireland before becoming a full-time writer. His first novel, DIVORCING JACK, won the Betty Trask Prize, and all his novels have been critically acclaimed. He wrote the screenplays for the feature films of DIVORCING JACK, CROSSMAHEART and WILD ABOUT HARRY. He lives in Ireland with his family.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
If you like black comedy...,
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This review is from: Driving Big Davie (Paperback)
While on a recent Caribbean cruise, I had the pleasure of meeting the wife of Colin Bateman and she gave me the book, "Driving Big Davie" as a gift. Now, I'd never heard of Colin Bateman but a free book is a free book nonetheless so I read it.
The twists and turns in this book are wonderful: the humor keeps you alive and kicking. I guffawed loudly over some of his descriptions, and being a Southwest Floridian, I noticed some geographical inaccuracies. One doesn't go up from Naples to Everglades City, you go down. But this aside, Dan Starkey and Davie Kincaid are two of the most fascinating characters I have run into a long while. I have no idea what genre this would fall into except maybe "humorous murder", but without a doubt I enjoyed it so much that I've now purchased two additional books by Colin Bateman featuring his hero, Dan Starkey. Not having one drop of Irish blood...north, south, east or west...in my family tree, and no national pride to defend, I found the description of the Irish amusing and not at all distasteful. I'm always amused how the intellectuals damn good old-fashioned raunch humor.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
As a writer, it's been all downhill,
This review is from: Driving Big Davie (Paperback)
I was switched on to Colin Bateman in the late 90s when he was recommended to me as one of Ireland's best new authors. I loved Wee Sweetie, a book that, incidentally, turned my son into a reader. It had plenty of humour, a plot that made sense, mostly, characters with some depth and occasional violence. Since then, it seems like it's all been downhill for Colin. Driving Big Davie reaches new depths and all I can say is the over-characterisation of the Irish as pathetic drunks and his now-complete obsession with gratuitous violence has left me cold. In a first for me, I actually persevered for nearly 300 pages and then put it down, not remotely interested in the ending. In fact, who would care what happens to those Irish tossers?
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