The bizarre incidents that make elections fun

PARTY NATION. By Damian Corless, Merlin Publishing, €13

So how do you feel now it’s all over? If you could cheerfully murder the next politician who crosses the street to whisper in your ear, ‘‘You won’t forget me now, will you?”, then Damian Corless’s Party Nation is possibly not for you.

If, on the other hand, you’re in despair at the thought that it could be another five years before the nation’s greatest ...