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LITTLE
Fiction (Literary Fiction)
- September 2011
An extravagant, tragicomic, dark, historically audacious novel which tells the story of Marie Grosholtz, an undersized, big-nosed, lantern-jawed, uncanny child born in 18th century Switzerland, who grows up to be one of the most celebrated and improbable artists of her – or any other – time. From a small Swiss village to the boulevards of revolutionary Paris, from a wax anatomist’s atelier to the grandest rooms of Versailles, LITTLE is about history, self-invention, art, entertainment, authenticity and imitation, and the public’s eternal blood-thirsty taste for celebrity.
Peopled with a gallery of extraordinary characters, LITTLE takes a bold look at familiar events through new eyes – it’s a journey of discovery, a story of a city in turmoil, an adventure in love, and the birth of an artist.
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ALVA AND IRVA
Fiction (Literary Fiction) 207 pages
Picador - March 2003
Longlisted for the IMPAC Literary Award 2005. A startlingly original novel featuring identical twins, maps, tattoos and an earthquake-ridden city. Alva and Irva Dapps are identical twins in the city of Entralla. Their anxious mother, having lost her postman husband to his obsession with foreign stamps, is fearful of the world beyond their house, and the twins are torn by their conflicting desires for freedom and belonging. Alva, seeking more, lingers at the foreign embassies, reading tourist brochures, and secretly begins to have the map of the world tattooed on her body. Together she and her more timid sister spend hours exploring the city, and recreate it in a plasticine model, little knowing how one day this will be the key to the rescue of their city...
Biography
Novelist, visual artist and playwright. He has written and produced several plays. His debut novel OBSERVATORY MANSIONS (with author's illustrations) is sold in 14 countries and was described by John Fowles as 'proving the potential brilliance of the novel form'.
Has recently completed a third novel, LITTLE, again accompanied by artworks, the story of Marie Grosholtz, later known as Madame Tussaud.
For more information on LITTLE see the website: www.littlethenovel.com
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