DEBAUCHERY: Part I

by Andy Bramley

482 pages, Paperback

Published June 24, 2024

About the author

When not sleuthing around Cabot Cove in 1984, Andy Bramley can be found writing professionally silly comedy/fantasy books. Based in Kingston Upon Hull in the UK, Andy sees his writing as therapy and a temporary escape from a difficult world. Armed with no creative writing degree, his ambitious anthology of eight books aims to tell a story, set in Yorkshire that isn't about trawlers.

Reviews

[George Collins · Rating 5 out of 5]

Debauchery: Part I is a bold, darkly comic novel that reimagines the seven deadly sins as modern characters caught in an ancient moral framework turned upside down. Andy Bramley blends satire, theology, and absurdity to explore how we judge good and evil and who gets to decide the difference. The cast is deliberately excessive, with several standout characters, particularly Polly, whose scene-stealing presence embodies the book’s gleeful moral inversion. While the narrative occasionally overreaches and includes some extraneous detours, the novel remains clever, provocative, and frequently funny. At its best, Debauchery works as a twisted 21st-century morality play where the sinners are, paradoxically, the most human figures on the page.