Breakfast with the Borgias by D.B.C. Pierre

Discombobulated and jetlagged, he falls in with a family who appear to be commemorating an event. With his plane grounded by fog at Stanstead, he has been booked in for the night at the guesthouse. Enter Ariel Panek, a promising young academic en route from the USA to an important convention in Amsterdam. Inside there's no phone or internet reception, no connection with the outside world. The setting: a faded, lonely guesthouse on the Essex coast. Pierre is a regular contributor to New Philosopher magazine and divides his time between the UK and Ireland.'Hell is other people.' It is a chilling, page-turning Hammer novella by the Booker-Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little. In 2016 Faber & Faber launched Release the Bats, a memoir and practical guide to breaking through in fiction without killing yourself. The novel also won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel, the Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman Award and the James Joyce Award from University College Dublin.ĭBC Pierre is also author of the novels Ludmila’s Broken English and Lights Out In Wonderland, plus the picture book for distracted adults Petit Mal and the Hammer novella Breakfast With The Borgias.

Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre’s debut novel, won the Man Booker Prize in 2003 and sold in 43 territories. I’m elated that Faber is behind this gleeful new algorithm of trigger words for our time – it’s dedicated with love to all of us whose mottos have condensed to WTF.

The story of a hapless father’s love and loss, and a speedball, starburst satire, Meanwhile in Dopamine City is a passionate, freewheeling work of the human imagination: a riotous cry for the soul and the flesh and the heart in automatic times. So new realities are rocketing their way to 37 Palisade Row, where everything will change, every day, at mortal speed, as Lonnie finds himself in a world he’ll need to join or wither in. But Shelby-Ann – his little girl, the maddening apple of his eye – has other ideas: Shelby-Ann wants her first smartphone. All Lonnie Cush wants is to keep his kids safe.

It’s a big bad world out there, in Dopamine City. Publication is scheduled for 6 August 2020. Faber acquired UK Commonwealth (inc Canada) + EU rights from Clare Conville at C&W Agency.

Breakfast with the Borgias by D.B.C. Pierre