We are back at the Jaipur Literature Festival at Soneva Fushi in the Maldives for this freewheeling conversation with the legend that is DBC Pierre! Pierre's debut novel Vernon God Little was the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award. He followed this with a series of acclaimed works in fiction and non-fiction including Ludmila's Broken English, Breakfast with the Borgias, Release the Bats and his latest Big Snake, Little Snake which is a meditation on fate, risk and luck. We talked to him about illicit reading in the barber's chair, writing tips and routines, hopeful books, debauchery, decadence and the necessary joy of plodding.
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BOOKS
DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little
DBC Pierre -Big Snake Little Snake
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
James Michener - The Drifters
Naguib Mahfouz - Adrift on the Nile
Peter Frankopan - The Silk Roads
William Dalrymple - The Anarchy
Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall
James Salter - A Sport and a Pastime
Marquis De Sade - 120 Days of Sodom
Marquis De Sade - Juliette
Henri Charrière - Papillion
DBC Pierre - Release the Bats
Sarah Knight - Grow the F*** Up
Stephen King - On Writing
Stephen King - Dolores Claiborne
Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird
Viv Albertine - Clothes, Music, Boys
Alejandro Zambra - My Documents
Isabel Allende - House of the Spirits
Julio Cortazar - Hopscotch
James Joyce - Ulysses
Grigor Narekatsi - The Book of Sadness
Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser
Joris-Karl Huysmans - Against Nature
Jack Kerouac - Big Sur
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