●●●●○ As the Beast from the East and Storm Emma gripped Ireland in their icy embrace, Danny Denton’s debut novel The Earlie King & the Kid in Yellow was appropriate company. ‘Appropriate’ is not, ordinarily, within this book’s remit: it … Continue reading The Earlie King & The Kid in Yellow: An Irish dystopia which goes beyond its generic premise “The Earlie King doesn’t shy away from the brutality of its vision, but, in arranging ‘bits’ of first person accounts and playscripts, it dances around scenes – assured, sometimes detached, nonetheless tender.”