Books by Rosanna Pike
A Little Trickerie
by Rosanna Pike
🏆 Winner of the 2025 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction
“It’s a debut novel set in the Middle Ages in England. It’s narrated by a young girl, Tibb, who is very put-upon—a vagrant who is looking after her mother. Vagrancy is a capital offense, so she has to stay on the run. It’s written in this extraordinary register. The sensibility is very Chaucerian. There’s low humour, bawdiness, slapstick, and it is all set within this world where people want to believe in miracles. Tibb falls in with a group of travelling players, who come up with a way to confect a miracle.” Read more...
Stephanie Merritt, Journalist
Interviews where books by Rosanna Pike were recommended
The Funniest Books of 2025, recommended by Stephanie Merritt
Every year, the judges of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction draw up a shortlist of books that made them laugh out loud. We asked the novelist Stephanie Merritt, one of the 2025 judges, to talk us through the eight books in the running for the title of the funniest book of the year.
