Traveling between London, Tokyo, and Berlin, Gabriel is in search of the bacchanal to obliterate all previous parties. His adventure takes in a spell in rehab, a near-death experience eating a poisonous Japanese delicacy, and finally an orgiastic feast in the bowels of Berlin's majestic Tempelhof Airport. Along the way, Gabriel falls apart, only to reemerge with a new outlook on the world and a mission to right his past wrongs.
Winner of the Booker Prize in 2003. Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in 2003. Winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2003.
Named as one of the '100 Best Things in the World' by GQ magazine in 2003, the riotous adventures of Vernon Gregory Little in small town Texas and beachfront Mexico mark one of the most spectacular, irreverent and bizarre deacute;buts of the 21st century so far. Its depiction of innocence and simple humanity (all seasoned with a dash of dysfunctional profanity) in an evil world is never less than astonishing. The only novel to be set in the barbecue sauce capital of Central Texas, Vernon God Little suggests that desperate times throw up the most unlikely of heroes. 'A showpiece of superb comic writing . . . Out of the detritus of a morally bankrupt society, Pierre has fashioned a work of comic art.' Sunday Telegraph 'In a just world, this ridiculously funny first novel would come free with every television set . . . Not since reading John Kennedy O'Toole's masterpiece, A Confederacy of Dunces . . . have I laughed so much or felt such sheer delight at the discovery of a wholly fresh comic voice . . . this novel reads like a modern day fairytale.' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday [For details of foreign rights, please contact Conville & Walsh (tel. 020 7287 3030 / fax 020 7287 4545)]
'Hell is other people.' A chilling, page-turning Hammer novella by the Booker-Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little.The setting: a faded, lonely guesthouse on the Essex coast. Outside, it's dark, and very foggy. Inside there's no phone or internet reception, no connection with the outside world.Enter Ariel Panek, a promising young academic en route from the USA to an important convention in Amsterdam. With his plane grounded by fog at Stanstead, he has been booked in for the night at the guesthouse. Discombobulated and jetlagged, he falls in with a family who appear to be commemorating an event.But this is no ordinary celebration. And this is no ordinary family.As evening becomes night, Panek realises that he has become caught in an insidious web of other people's secrets and lies, a Sartrian hell from which for him there may be no escape.
This novel charts the unlikely meeting between East and West that follows Ludmila Derev's appearance on a Russian brides website. Thousands of miles to the West, the Heath twins are separated after 33 years conjoined at the abdomen.
When DBC Pierre burst onto the scene in 2003, he arrived with no particular literary education. Finding he had something to say, he made the journey solo to that place where dreams and demons live, to try and turn feelings into words. Part biography, part reflection and part practical guide, Release the Bats explores the mysteries of why and how we tell stories, and the craft of writing fiction. DBC Pierre reveals everything he learned the hard way.
Willkommen im The Cliffs, dem abgründigsten Hotel Großbritanniens Ariel Panek möchte eigentlich nur ein paar unbeschwerte Tage mit seiner Studentin und Geliebten Zeva verbringen, am Rande eines Informatik-Kongress in Amsterdam. Doch dort kommt er nie an und landet stattdessen im Küstenhotel The Cliffs – einem Ort ohne Verbindung zur Außenwelt. Dort ist er dem schrulligen Hotelbesitzer und seinen einzigen Gästen, einer neurotischen Familie, die die »Borgias« genannt werden, ausgeliefert. Der Booker-Prize-Träger DBC Pierre ist zurück. Skurril wie Wes Anderson und auf der Höhe der Zeit erzählt DBC Pierre von der Liebe im digitalen Zeitalter und der verlorenen Kunst, auf das zu vertrauen, was einen unmittelbar umgibt. »Rasant erzählt, getragen von unnach-ahmlichen Figuren und mit einem Plot, der Agatha Christie alle Ehre macht.« The Mail on Sunday »Wenn es einen Autor gibt, der die gefährliche Ironie unserer Gegenwart einfangen kann, dann ist es DBC Pierre.« The Guardian
