sentences:  O'Connell is The Eccentric Club's (whose patron is The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), "Most Eccentric Thinker of the Year" 2015.Bloomsbury USA published a compilation of O'Connell's YA fiction "Royal Match" and "Royal Mess" in 2012 to coincide with the Royal Wedding.Soon after O'Connell was diagnosed with a brain tumour.