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  • Published: 29 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9781844886296
  • Imprint: Penguin Ireland
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $45.00

Don’t Look Back in Ongar





The 27th title in the bestselling Ross O'Carroll Kelly series, following South Dublin's favourite son on his latest misadventure!

It looked like it was Game Over for the Rossmeister General.


I was staring down the barrel of the big four-oh! And what did I have to show for it?


I was an out-of-work rugby coach who was soon to be divorced. My old dear was sliding away in a nursing home in a certain suburb of West Dublin. And my old man had brought the country to the verge of, like, nuclear annihilation.


And if that wasn’t bad enough, my teenage daughter was in love again. My sister-in-law was about to give birth to a baby that was possibly mine. And Castlerock College was about to go – I can’t even say the word – co-ed.


People kept saying that we were facing Ormageddon. But I was like, ‘Hey, it’s not the end of the world.’


Because Father Fehily used to say, ‘Sometimes good things come to an end so that better things can come to a beginning.’

  • Published: 29 September 2024
  • ISBN: 9781844886296
  • Imprint: Penguin Ireland
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $45.00

About the author

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is a man of the people-if the people are basically birds and drop-dead focking gorgeous. Because life is short, roysh, so you can't fock about with, like, rolling mauls, you've got to head straight for the line. Which is second nature to a try-scorer like me, given my ball-handling skills. How the hell did I get so lucky? Focked if I know.

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is the author of several bestselling books including; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-DressShould Have Got Off at Sydney Parade, and This Champagne Mojito is the Last Thing I Own.

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Praise for Don’t Look Back in Ongar

Our nation's great satirist

Irish Times

A national treasure

Irish Independent

Book after book, Ross O’Carroll-Kelly delivers the goods . . . in a league of his own

Business Post

Ireland’s finest comic creation since Father Ted

Hot Press

Satirical masterpieces

Irish Daily Star

The single greatest chronicler of our times

Irish Independent

Ross is a national institution

Irish Times

One of the funniest writers in the country

RTÉ Radio One

The social satire is as sharp as it gets ... compelling and carefully crafted

Irish Examiner

Laugh-out-loud funny

Anton Savage, Newstalk

(A) legendary anti-hero

Business Post

Paul Howard is a genius ... a lovely and fitting end for Ross

Irish Independent

He will remain one of our great literary characters

Irish Times

Paul Howard’s swansong to the greatest sequence of novels of our time.

John Boyne, Sunday Independent