Skippy Dies has been long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Paul Murray is the winner of the Oxfam Emerging Writers´ Prize First edition box-set and trade paperback were published to a storm of impassioned reviews and critical acclaim ´Noisy, hilarious, tragic, endlessly inventive, plain brilliant. A carnival of a novel’ The Times ‘Marvellous, witty, heartbreaking, intensely moving, excellent. The writing is second to none, the banter brilliant. Crazy, but beautiful’ Daily Telegraph Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight maths-whiz. Daniel ‘Skippy’ Juster is his roommate at Dublin’s Seabrook College for Boys. This is a story about their lives, loves, mistakes and triumphs.