Vernon God Little
DBC Pierre, Peter Warren Finlay2003 Man Booker Prize Winner
Whitbread First Novel Award Winner
Named as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GQ in 2003, the riotous adventures of Vernon Gregory Little in small-town Texas & beachfront Mexico mark one of the most spectacular, irreverent & bizarre debuts of the twenty-first century so far.
Its depiction of innocence & 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 desparate times throw up the most unlikely of heroes.
When not travelling far and wide DBC Pierre (aka Peter Warren Finlay) divides his time between England & a mountainside in Ireland. Vernon God Little, his debut novel, won the Man Booker Prize & the Whitbread First Novel Award, & was followed by Ludmila’s Broken English & Lights Out in Wonderland. He is also the author of a collection of short fictions, Petit Mal, & a Hammer novella, Breakfast with the Borgias.