Books by D. B. C. Pierre
Vernon God Little
by D. B. C. Pierre
🏆 Winner of the 2003 Booker Prize
🏆 Winner of the 2003 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction
Texan teenager Vernon Little's best friend has just committed a school shooting, killing fifteen of their peers. When it seems like Vernon will be implicated in the press, he goes on the run. This exuberant story of a foul-mouthed fugitive was, as the broadcaster James Walton has described it, "one of the more unexpected Booker winners... possibly ever."
Interviews where books by D. B. C. Pierre were recommended
The Funniest Books of the 21st Century
This year, to mark its 25th anniversary, the Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction declared Marina Lewycka’s A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian to be their ‘winner of winners’, that is: the funniest book of the last twenty-five years. We asked comedian Tatty Macleod, one of the judges, about the process of sifting through their longlist of the previous winners.
