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Shortlisted for the 2013 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction Failing salesman Joe has a dream or rather an outrageous fantasy. Holed up in his trailer, Joe devises a jaw-dropping plan that will stamp out sexual harassment in the workplac
Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else Ive ever read MARK HADDON 'Original...witty...playfula wonderfully funny book' JAMES WOOD 'A triumph a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form' A. S. BYATT Eleven-year-old Ludo i
For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most far-reaching dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art worlds
Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned above all to avoidmauvais ton(bad taste loses something in the translation). One should not ask servants to wait on one during Ramadan: they must have paid leave whi
Described as "the most well-executed literary sex comedy" of our time by Salon.com, and "a wickedly smart satire that deserves to be a classic" by Bookforum, Helen DeWitt's Lighting Rods is a novel that will leave you laughing for
Helen DeWitt's 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was "destined to become a cult classic" (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so "Why not just, 'destined to become a classic?'" (Garth Risk