NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself.Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books and small comforts in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused eld...

**AN INTERNATIONAL No. 1 BESTSELLER**'I absolutely adored it' NINA STIBBE****Selected as a Washington Post Book of the Summer**From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes a novel about an ordinary man who thought life's surprises were behind him – until a chance encounter changed everything**________________________________________________Bob Comet is a retired librarian p...

Oregon, 1851. Eli and Charlie Sisters, notorious professional killers, are on their way to California to kill a man named Hermann Kermit Warm. On the way, the brothers have a series of unsettling and violent experiences in the Darwinian landscape of Gold Rush America. Charlie makes money and kills anyone who stands in his way; Eli doubts his vocation and falls in love. And they bicker a lot. Then they get to California, and discover that Warm is an inventor who has come up with a magical f...

NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING MICHELLE PFEIFFER AND LUCAS HEDGESA tragedy of manners from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers**'My favourite book of his yet' Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette'Pure joy' Mail on Sunday**'Buoyantly insane' New YorkerFrances Price is in dire straits. Scandals swirl around the recently widowed New York...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL, JOHN C. REILLY AND JOAQUIN PHOENIXA BOOKER PRIZE FINALISTAND A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly • Amazon • Hudson Booksellers • Washington PostHermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli do...

Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, he is a compulsive liar and a melancholy weakling. When Lucy accepts employment assisting the majordomo of the remote, forbidding castle of the Baron Von Aux he meets thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and a puppy. He also meets Klara, a delicate beauty who is, unfortunately, already involved with an exceptionally handsome partisan soldier. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, ...

A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he is morbidly amused by watching the regulars roll in and fall into their nightly oblivion, pitying them and their loneliness. In hopes of uncovering their secrets and motives, he establishes tentative friendships with them. He also knocks back pills indiscriminately and treats himself to gallons of Jameson's. But as his tenure at the bar continues, he begins to lose himself, tra...

Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges, directed by Azazael JacobsA Recommended Read from:Vanity Fair * Entertainment Weekly * Vulture * The Millions * Publishers Weekly * EsquireFrom bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegrat...

From the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers comes a brilliant and boisterous novelA love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitt’s long-awaited follow-up to the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Sisters Brothers.Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury...

Een romantische avonturenroman, een fabel zonder moraal en een inktzwarte komedie ineen: dit nieuwe boek van Patrick deWitt gaat over de jonge Lucien (Lucy) Minor, dwangmatig leugenaar, onbeminde eenzaat in een dorp vol reuzen, die een betrekking aanvaardt als 'ondermajordomus' op een grimmig kasteel in een afgelegen bergstreek, 'een beslissing die leidde tot velerlei verwikkelingen, waaronder, maar niet uitsluitend, ware liefde, bitter hartzeer, withete geestesangst en een acute aandrang ...

Het Wilde Westen, omstreeks 1850. Het zijn de dagen van de goudkoorts en Hermann Kermit Warm moet dood. Aldus is bevolen door de mysterieuze Commodore. Zijn twee handlangers, de beruchte huurmoordenaars Eli en Charlie Sisters, gaan op pad om hun prooi te zoeken en ervoor te zorgen dat de wil van de Commodore geschiedt. Voor de liefhebbers van de Coen-brothers en Cormac McCarthy.

Charlie y Eli Sisters viven en Oregon City y trabajan para el Comodoro, un magnate y quizá aspirante a político que mueve muchos hilos en las sombras y tiene múltiples y variados negocios. Los hermanos, todo hay que decirlo, son sus matones y a veces sus verdugos. Y ahora van rumbo a Sacramento, en California, a cumplir un nuevo trabajo para su jefe, acabar con Hermann Kermit Warm, un buscador de oro. Porque la novela transcurre en 1851, en plena fiebre del oro. No se sabe muy bien en qué ...