'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