Cameo: The ‘masterful’ ‘hilarious’ ‘genuinely scintillating’ 2026 One to Watch - Hardcover

Doyle, Rob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1399631071 ISBN 13: 9781399631075

Publisher: W&N, 2026

Synopsis

'Masterful' FINANCIAL TIMES

'Genuinely ingenious . . . In this novel he's simultaneously surmounted and retired a genre' NEW STATESMAN

'There simply isn't another novelist writing with such personality, ingenuity and purpose' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT

'A fantasy of literary celebrity in the culture war era . . . generates terrific momentum and the satire is wicked' GUARDIAN

The new novel from Irish Book Award-shortlisted author Rob Doyle: a daring comedy and dazzling meditation on fiction and reality

Cameo is the life story of invented Irish novelist Ren Duka, who has unexpected, runaway international success with a prolific series of autofictional novels.

What begins as a playful satire on literary ambition and the chaos of our times expands into a dazzling, polyphonic odyssey that challenges the border between fiction and reality.

As the Ren Duka novels race outwards in widening circles of influence, we encounter Dina Tatangelo, cult novelist of the New York underworld; a Japanese manga artist whose work eerily affects his family life; a grizzled Dublin taxi driver who just might ferry his passengers between worlds; a film-star facing public disgrace; and Rob Doyle, an author enduring a psychic and ontological crisis.

Cameo is at once a metaphysical architecture of the imagination, a human comedy full of unruly passions, and a self-portrait across multiple dimensions.

'Like Swift before him, Rob Doyle is a social satirist of the highest order . . . Cameo is provocative, transgressive, grimly hilarious, and it surely can't be long until he spawns his own adjective. 'Doylean'? Don't rule it out' BENJAMIN MYERS

'Curious, compassionate, filthy, iconoclastic . . . Cameo is mindbending fun' LISA McINERNEY

'A heady cocktail . . . genuinely scintillating' MAIL ON SUNDAY

'Buckle up' DAILY MAIL

About this title

About the Author

Rob Doyle is the author of four previous, internationally acclaimed books: Threshold, Autobibliography, This is the Ritual and Here Are the Young Men, which was adapted as a film starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Dean-Charles Chapman, was named as one the Irish Times' 100 best Irish books of the 21st century and one of RTÉ's 21 books that define 21st century Irish literature, and was shortlisted in the Irish Book Awards. Doyle's writing has appeared in the New York Times, Observer, New Statesman, Dublin Review and many other publications. His work has been translated into several languages and nominated for various prizes. He lives where he can, in Dublin, Berlin and Rosslare Harbour.

Edition details

• Publisher: W&N
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1399631071
• ISBN 13: 9781399631075
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288