Here Are the Young Men (Paperback)

For sheer bravery and for style, for its integrity of vision and for its uncompromising tone, I also admired Rob Doyle’s Here Are The Young Men - Colm Toibin, Irish Times Books of the Year

A powerful, passionate and electrifying novel. Many writers try to recreate the traumas and anxieties of teenage years in fiction but very few manage it with as much conviction as Rob Doyle - John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

A fine debut. It shines a light into a relatively unexplored region: the psyches of youth adrift in a world where old verities no longer exist ... A rollicking good read. God may be dead, but a new literary star is born - Sunday Times

The language is unflinching, the story uncompromising … A powerful and provocative novel and easily the most honest account of young Irish people for many years - Guardian

A dark and intoxicating debut - Irish Independent

A lament for the blank generation, the literary equivalent of the song from which it takes its name, Joy Division’s Decades … a powerful debut, maybe the first novel since Kevin Power’s Bad Day in Blackrock to interrogate the dark side of the young Irish male’s psyche - Irish Times

A portrait of a jilted generation … a brilliant Dublin novel and an exercise in honesty - Sunday Times

Matthew, the angsty Dublin protagonist of this impressive debut, exemplifies a teenage malaise of worry, hedonism and burgeoning sexual inadequacy … Doyle is excellent at depicting the dangers of drugs on young minds and the ways first-person video games, internet porn, snuff films and booze can fertilise latent personality disorders - Metro

It’s been dubbed the Irish Trainspotting, making a statement about disillusioned and disaffected young people. A new voice to watch - Woman's Way

Unblinking depiction of male desperation - James Kidd, Independent Debuts of the Year