After his brush with death Ross OCarroll-Kelly
- schools rugby legend award-winning author & lover of the ladeez
- is back with a renewed lust for life
- all thrillingly revealed in The Shelbourne Ultimatum". Ross wakes up from his coma to find a country that has changed beyond recognition. Shrewsbury Road has become a ghost estate. Marks & Spencer are selling microwavable coddle. & a Euro discount store is about to open in the Powerscourt Townhouse Centre. & he was only unconscious for ten days. But never mind all that. The main thing is that whoever tried to kill him missed all his vital organs. & having had such a lucky escape Ross vows not to waste another minute of his life. There are thousands of women out there & just one Ross to go around. He needs to focus. Of course life gets in the way. He has a daughter who hates him a son who is growing up way too fast & a soon-to-be-ex wife who is resorting to increasingly desperate measures to stop the bank from repossessing the house. Oh & the Gords
- get this!
- think hes lying to them. Lying? Ross? " Ross misadventures & on-the-nose observations never fail to provoke a laugh-out-loud reaction.. .bursting at the seams with spot
- on parody". (" Irish Times"). " Will leave you with pains in your cheeks from laughing". ("RTE Guide"). " The Shelbourne Ultimatum" is the twelfth novel in Paul Howards " Ross OCarroll-Kelly" series". Ross books have sold half a million copies are annually nominated for the Popular Fiction prize at the Irish Book Awards
- where they have twice won the prize
- & are also critically acclaimed as satirical masterpieces. Titles include: " The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress" " Should have Got off at Sydney Parade" " This Champagne Mojito is the Last Thing I Own" " Rhino What You Did Last Summer" "NAMA Mia! & The Oh My God Delusion". The last of these was chosen as Irelands favourite book in Easons 125th birthday poll."