Prestige Drama

SÉAMAS O'REILLY is a writer and author who has worked as a columnist for the Observer, the Irish Times and the Irish Examiner. He is Features Editor of London satirical magazine, The Fence and his writing has appeared in The Guardian, the New Statesman and the New York Times. His memoir Did Ye Hear Mammy Died topped the Irish Times Bestseller List for seven weeks, and won Best Biography at the 2021 Irish Book Awards. Séamas currently lives in Walthamstow, London with his family.

[A] brilliant debut novel . . . The humour of Prestige Drama is skilfully weaponised: it allows O'Reilly to go after subjects that we often tiptoe around. And his language is gloriously vivid