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London Pigeon Wars
The London Pigeon Wars was first published in the UK by Penguin in 2003. As per, it had some really amazing reviews and some really tossy ones. There’s a selection of edited highlights below.
What the blurb says:
Gunnersbury claims that hostilities were commenced at the battle of Trafalgar. But the verity is that Trafalgar was just a skirmish, a starling-tempered flare-up of pointed beaks and posturing. Really, for everybirdy, the war began with its utterance, and that was later, after the murder of Brixton23 above the Acre Lane Sainsbury's.
What the critics say:
‘Part affectionately scathing anatomy of London’s grubby allure, part eerily prescient satire on the hapless destructiveness of human nature, The London Pigeon Wars is an alarming feat of imaginative energy: funny, unsettling and horrible in equal measure.’ The Times
'A fine writer who loves and is sincerely playful with stories.' Spectator
'Dazzling ... strikingly imaginative' Metro
‘Neate builds up his cast with pointillist aplomb, fashioning for them crises of faith and identity which wouldn’t feel out of place in George Eliot or Henry James.’ John O’Connell - Time Out
‘A frustratingly ramshackle chronicle focusing on a gang of vacuous Londoners.’ Trevor Lewis – The Sunday Times (Don’t worry. I know where Trevor lives)
‘Not since the publication of the late Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange 41 years ago have I come across a novel as adventurous and unexpected as Patrick Neate’s new book.’ Geoffrey Wansell – Daily Mail
'Impressively bold ... has plenty of thrills and surprises and offers a bird's-eye view of the trappings of modern urban life.' – Irish Independent
'An original, quirky, richly funny and yet, in parts, strangely disturbing novel.' The Sunday Tribune (Ireland)
What I say:
Buy it here.
