What the press are saying...

"Montague writes with a direct, visceral poetry and this whole collection is the work of a born storyteller."

- Mike McCormack

author of Solar Bones (Tramp Press) 

"With Capital Vices Montague has created a memorable cast of characters; errant, wayward, misplaced, and all the time scavenging for their place in the scheme of things. A collection replete with whiskey wisdom; ache and edge; heart and humour; vigour and poignancy, the swish and bluster of life."

- Alan McMonagle

author of Laura Cassidy's Walk of Fame (Picador) 

"A roller coaster ride through time, from Ireland to India with a stopover in Disneyland. Montague's stories are packed to the brim with craic and cringe in equal measure. Written in technicolour, an ensemble cast of characters are all tested to the limit with unexpected results. This magical blend of flash fiction and short stories is fresh and inventive, I laughed out loud and cried in turn."

- Aoibheann McCann

author of Marina (Wordonthestreet) 

"Conor Montague writes neon draped prose, characters caught, lost, or living entranced in a smelter of realities. His words conjure a misfit’s vision, a child’s delight, a killer’s desperate play-land. Akin to Henry Miller, Conor Montague writes of ‘lost souls downtown’ and the constant lurking yearn for lives other than our own."

- Órfhlaith Foyle

author of Three Houses in Rome (Doire Press) 

“The characters in Capital Vices are tightly wound and on the edge in Montague’s intense visceral dramas. Montague has the ear of a dramatist — acute to the darkly funny sounds of people trying to talk their way out of trouble. Both lyrical and absurd, Montague’s stories are a joy to read.”

-Martina Evans

author of American Mules (Carcanet) 

"Flan O’Brien meets Hunter S - Fear and Loathing in Ballinasloe and beyond. Montague’s wild book is akin to strapping yourself onto a rollercoaster that snakes around three continents, and just when you are upside down and crying for mercy, you swerve off to a different place, moved by characters rarely written about in Irish fiction. Brilliantly written with a natural ear for dialogue and a deep love for those unrooted headcases who wander the globe open to adventure. From the dark institutions of Ireland they take on the world and grab life bare handed, as if it were the neck of a cobra slithering into your jail cell.”

- Emer Martin

author of Thirsty Ghosts (Lilliput Press).