All Them Dogs
- Author Djamel White
- Narrator Conor Dunne
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Publish Date 26 March 2026
- Run Time 6 hours and 32 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction: general and literary.
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What to expect
***SELECTED AS A 2026 BOOK TO WATCH IN THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, IRISH TIMES, SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, RTE***
'An electrifying debut' Economist
'One of the debuts of the year' Irish Times
'A stylish, adroit and gritty debut' Anne Enright
'A book you inhale, devour, grapple with, and reel from more than read' Marlon James
'Exhilarating and often frightening . . . a hugely satisfying read' Roddy Doyle
'As beautiful and tough as an uncut jewel' Colin Walsh
'A moving, fast-paced novel . . . written in prose at once glittering and tender' Sarah Moss
'Frenetic and exhilarating . . . has the energy and drama of a shoot-out' Rob Doyle
Things are different since Tony Ward landed back in town. The West Dublin gangland has changed. His old mentor is dead, and his best pal Kenny Boyle is on the straight and narrow.
After five years keeping quiet across the way, Tony is keen to reinstate himself, and when the opportunity arises to work side by side with Darren 'Flute' Walsh, a top enforcer of notorious crime boss Aengus Lavelle, it feels like a no brainer.
Biting off more than he can chew has never bothered Tony Ward, but Flute Walsh is not the meek, quiet boy Tony remembers from school. Brooding, stoic, and unpredictably dangerous, Tony finds himself drawn to his new associate in more ways than one.
With retribution from his past actions always close in the rear view, the protection offered by Flute's standing in the gang is crucial. But how safe is Tony really, when a mutual attraction starts to complicate matters?
By turns savage, thrilling and unexpectedly tender, All Them Dogs is a gripping story of violence, lust, and greed that explores one man's struggles to find his place in an unsparing world.
'A claustrophobic masterpiece . . . a brilliantly tender love story' Isaac Fitzgerald
'A dazzling, unsettling, fever dream of a novel' Declan Hughes
'An electrifying debut' Economist
'One of the debuts of the year' Irish Times
'A stylish, adroit and gritty debut' Anne Enright
'A book you inhale, devour, grapple with, and reel from more than read' Marlon James
'Exhilarating and often frightening . . . a hugely satisfying read' Roddy Doyle
'As beautiful and tough as an uncut jewel' Colin Walsh
'A moving, fast-paced novel . . . written in prose at once glittering and tender' Sarah Moss
'Frenetic and exhilarating . . . has the energy and drama of a shoot-out' Rob Doyle
Things are different since Tony Ward landed back in town. The West Dublin gangland has changed. His old mentor is dead, and his best pal Kenny Boyle is on the straight and narrow.
After five years keeping quiet across the way, Tony is keen to reinstate himself, and when the opportunity arises to work side by side with Darren 'Flute' Walsh, a top enforcer of notorious crime boss Aengus Lavelle, it feels like a no brainer.
Biting off more than he can chew has never bothered Tony Ward, but Flute Walsh is not the meek, quiet boy Tony remembers from school. Brooding, stoic, and unpredictably dangerous, Tony finds himself drawn to his new associate in more ways than one.
With retribution from his past actions always close in the rear view, the protection offered by Flute's standing in the gang is crucial. But how safe is Tony really, when a mutual attraction starts to complicate matters?
By turns savage, thrilling and unexpectedly tender, All Them Dogs is a gripping story of violence, lust, and greed that explores one man's struggles to find his place in an unsparing world.
'A claustrophobic masterpiece . . . a brilliantly tender love story' Isaac Fitzgerald
'A dazzling, unsettling, fever dream of a novel' Declan Hughes
Critics Review
One of the debuts of the year
In the best Irish style, Djamel White uses a local voice to blast through language and make it new. His hero, Tony Ward, is a bittersweet confection of self-defeating swagger . . . a stylish, adroit and gritty debut
All Them Dogs is all that- a book you inhale, devour, grapple with, and reel from more than read. A coming-of-age novel for an age that comes breathing down the back of your neck. The kind of book where everything is on the edge of a knife and where love, like death, is either a kiss or a bullet away
Exhilarating and often frightening - Djamel White's first novel is a hugely satisfying read. It adds new streets to Dublin's literary map
As beautiful and tough as an uncut jewel, this kinetic and claustrophobic novel takes you deep into a darkness where desire, sex and violence become dangerously, seductively tangled
A moving, fast-paced novel about masculinity, violence and vulnerability, set in parts of Dublin that rarely appear in literature and written in prose at once glittering and tender
Dublin is Vice City in Djamel White's frenetic and exhilarating debut novel. All Them Dogs has the energy and drama of a shoot-out
All Them Dogs is a claustrophobic masterpiece-an emotionally devastating literary crime novel set in Dublin's underworld, where violence, poverty, and toxic masculinity form a brutal backdrop to a brilliantly tender love story. Here is an intimate tale of violence and desire that is as sharp as the knives wielded on the page. Djamel White has taken a familiar genre and turned it into something bright and new, burning like white phosphorus
All Them Dogs is as compelling as your favourite gangster movie, as profound as your favourite novel. So sexy and tender and dangerous and poetic and frightening
Djamel White's outstanding debut charts the giddy, chaotic rise and fall of Tony Ward, a sensitive, volatile gangster vivid with ambition and desire. Propulsive, incendiary storytelling renders viscerally the stylish squalor and delirious brutality of Dublin's underworld; Ward's supple, engaging voice blends kinetic force with perceptive, lyrical insight. A dazzling, unsettling, fever dream of a novel
A pummelling debut
White is backed by serious pedigree in the publishing world . . . There will be a lot of anticipation for All Them Dogs
[A] breathless debut . . . Dublin's answer to Top Boy
With care and verve, Djamel White brings vividly to life the genial malice and ambient dread that infuses All Them Dogs world of feuding West Dublin gangsters
An electrifying debut about divided loyalties and unexpected desire
Explosive
Raw, colourful, and fizzing with a chaotic energy, this is by all accounts a masterpiece of a debut
What a debut. All Them Dogs takes place in Djamel White's beautifully lived-in and scuffed-up world of West Dublin in the years just before the pandemic . . . the denouement is quite astounding
Edgy, explosive debut
An inescapable and fresh noir novel . . . It's a brilliant debut from an author sure to one day have a place in the Irish literary canon
A debut novel of rare force and control. This is a revelation: a mob thriller steeped in the gallows humor of working-class Dublin, yet with notes of tenderness to temper the violence . . . White keeps us balanced on a knife edge, and the novel's final revelations churn for days
Djamel White's gritty debut employs street-level Irish vernacular to tell a story of a queer Irish gangster who can't get out of his own way
White debuts with a riveting and tender literary thriller about a young man exploring his sexuality while trying to find his footing in the crime world . . . It's a memorable story of a man's ill-fated attempt to transcend his hopelessness
If novelists are supposed to look for the stories that haven't been told, then White succeeds admirably. It's Love/Hate meets Brokeback Mountain . . . The dialogue is trenchant, and the moments of high drama gripping . . . Every year, Ireland delivers a fresh batch of debut novelists, many of whom won't survive the rigours of the publishing industry to produce second, third or fourth novels. But Djamel White, on the basis of All Them Dogs, seems destined to be with us for a long time yet
All Them Dogs is filled with a street lyricism that mines masculinity. . . There's a poetry on the pages here that tenderises even the most hardened characters, as they alternately strut and cower at the mercy of criminal impulses . . . a magical piece of writing
If novelists are supposed to look for the stories that haven't been told, then White succeeds admirably . . . Tony is a compelling narrator and White displays great skill as he builds the tension . . . Djamel White on the basis of All Them Dogs seems destined to be with us for a long time yet
[White's] injected a thrilling hit of illicit queerness into an ultra-masculine world where reputation is everything
| Author | Djamel White |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Conor Dunne |
| Duration | 6 hours and 32 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781399824491 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | John Murray Press |
| Genre | Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction: general and literary |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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