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    Turbulent Priests
    Turbulent Priests
    Turbulent Priests
    Audiobook10 hours

    Turbulent Priests

    Written by Colin Bateman

    Narrated by Adam Moore

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Dan Starkey arrives on Wrathlin Island to investigate the residents' belief that the Messiah is alive, female, and about to start school there: it's not a commission that turns up everyday. He finds a mess of religious intolerance and illicit drinking in a tiny community that is big on religious fervour but small on hospitality. Apart from the Messiah's mum of course, who's clung to her sanity. And her lager.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateJun 5, 2014
    ISBN9781471264108
    Turbulent Priests
    Author

    Colin Bateman

    Colin Bateman is an author, screenwriter and playwright. He is the creator of the BBC series Murphy's Law and was listed by the Daily Telegraph as one of the Top 50 crime writers of all time. Find out more at colinbateman.com

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    • 5/5
      If you like Bateman's other books, you'll like this one. Freelance reporter/writer Dan Starkey is off with his new wife and baby to a remote island off the Irish coast to see if the island's new baby is really the second coming… It's full of Bateman's usual very clever wit and plot.
    • 4/5
      There was an exhilarating originality about this novel - an isolated community off the coast of Northern Ireland becomes convinced one of its number is the second coming of Christ. Journalist Dan Starkey arrives to investigate. It becomes clear that this is one of a series of books featuring Starkey, and given that I've not encountered him before it was a bit like crashing a party halfway through, but it was one where I felt welcome, and everything the reader needs to know about what has gone before is economically conveyed without disturbing the narrative. There's a lot of drinking (despite the fact that the island is "dry") and a lot of wisecracking. The humour reminded me of my husband - frequently corny to an almost unbearable degree, but amongst it some really cracking humour that makes wading through the corn that bit less painful. And you really have to applaud the one-liner at the end of chapter 20, whilst acknowledging the complexity of the scaffolding that had to be erected around it to permit it to be delivered.I was hoping the book might bring me a tiny bit closer to understanding Northern Ireland and the whole religious divide. "Protestantism never has and never will be about religion" remarks Starkey in chapter 1. "It's about property and culture and spitting at Catholics". I was none the wiser, but that observation summed up in a nutshell everything about sectarianism that is baffling to outsiders.I enjoyed the first half more than the second - there was a lot of good personality-driven plot and a lot of good humour. From halfway on, though, something happened. It became like a screenplay in waiting. Guns and fisticuffs and overwrought near-death experiences took over. Despite some pretty graphic action, you knew everything was going to be broadly OK: is the author really going to allow his serial character to be killed off? There are surely plenty more wisecracks to come.
    • 4/5
      Journalist Dan Starkey has been asked by the Primate of all Ireland to investigate reports of the Second Coming which has supposedly happened on the small island of Wrathlin. Why Dan? Well apparantly an old acquaintance of his started things off by say he'd had visions from God telling him to expect the new Messiah. Father Frank Flynn had returned home to Wrathlin after being disowned by his parrish in Crossmaheart and after the reported visions and their seeming accuracy over the birth of the child had distanced himself from the Church and the Cardinal wants to know what's going on. He'd sent a priest but he hadn't returned and was presumed converted. Dan is sent in under cover of using the island as a retreat to write the novel he'd always wanted to. Can he find out what's really happening and will things turn out like he expects? Not a chance, this is Dan Starkey after all.The black comedy, satire and caustic wit all make a return in this 3rd adventure for anti-hero Dan Starkey and I wouldn't have it any other way. This is probably slightly better than the other two in the series that I've read so far but not quite good enough to give it that extra half.
    • 4/5
      Like all of Colin Bateman's books, this one is a great read. Dan Starkey is asked to record the events occuring on a remote island off the Northern Irish coast on which the new Messiah, a little girl, has been born. Starkey witnesses how the population of the island reacts both to the little girl and to outsiders on the island
    • 3/5
      OK book, funny enough
    • 5/5
      Fast paced, crazy and as un-put-downable as his previous books. It's not hard to become hooked on Batemen's anti-hero, Dan starkey, reluctant everything! A modern day, tounge in cheek Wicker Man. And watch out for the killing of a certain famous twitcher! Classic!