Donnybrook

A dark and brutal debut. Donnybrook is a bellow of rage from the American heartland, and Bill is the new bard of the disaffected rural underclass.

Roger Smith, author of Wake Up Dead

Raw desperation and powerful prose pack a knockout punch in Donnybrook. Frank Bill’s novel is a winner.

Hilary Davidson, author of The Damage Done

The prose is vivid and visceral, especially the fight scenes. Bill manages to accurately portray intricate movements and action without losing pace. These set pieces are often imaginative, original and horrific... There’s a definite cinematic quality to the whole narrative.

Bookmunch

A breathless, enthralling read

Shortlist

Donnybrook is as subtle as a 12-gauge shotgun blast to the face…[A] coruscating new voice writing in the American rural noir tradition of Daniel Woodrell and Donald Ray Pollock.

Doug Johnstone, Independent on Sunday

[A] gritty, gory book. As with Tarantino’s movies, there is something earnest, deliberate, in the way Bill goes about flouting the conventions of liberal good taste. Contemporary fiction needs some bare-knuckles boxing to liven things up from time to time.

Financial Times

You feel every broken bone and tooth and smell the blood spattered on the canvas – and you won’t forget it in a hurry

Sunday Sport