Everett, Percival

Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman's murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading...

An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed...

The sudden death of Not Sidney Poitier's mother orphans him at age eleven. He is left with a name no one understands, an uncanny resemblance to an Oscar-winning actor, and...

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeFinalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for FictionA man visits his ageing father in a nursing home, where his father writes the...

'Absorbing in its simplicity about bourgeois banality and the quest for expression' NEW YORK TIMESKevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't allow anyone to see: not his...

Finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for FictionZach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area - the geological history of a cave forty-four metres above...

Theodore Street is driving towards the ocean where he plans to drown himself. But on the way he is hit by a van and he sails through the windscreen, his...

An ingenious, madcap novel about supervillains and nothing, really, from an American novelist whose star keeps risingThe protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics...

Dr. No is the spy thriller as you've never read it before, reinvented by Percival Everett, the twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees and James. Wala Kitu is a...

Selected as one of the best books to read in 2024 by Sunday Times, Guardian, Observer, BBC Culture, Financial Times, New Statesman, Irish Times and Scotsman'A canon-shatteringly great book' -...

Selected as one of the best books to read in 2024 by Sunday Times, Guardian, Observer, BBC Culture, Financial Times, New Statesman, Irish Times and Scotsman'A canon-shatteringly great book' -...

'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' - Roddy DoyleJames is a profound and ferociously funny novel from one of our greatest living writers, Percival Everett.The...

AUTHOR OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER, JAMESAUTHOR OF ERASURE, now adapted for the screen as the OSCAR-WINNING FILM, AMERICAN FICTIONPercival Everett is diving back into poetry...

'American literature's philosopher king - and its sharpest satirist' - The New YorkerCraig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in a slump. His batting average is shocking, his...

An astonishing new novel of loss and grief from "one of our culture's preeminent novelists" (Los Angeles Times)Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area--the...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Percival Everett's The Trees is a powerful satire of revenge and racial justice in America.A Sunday Times Fiction Book of the YearWinner of the Bollinger...

The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of...

'Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy' - The New York TimesDavid Larson can never go home.His parents are dead. His sister and her hippie...

Training horses is dangerous - a head-to-head confrontation with 1,000 pounds of muscle takes courage. It is these same qualities that allow John and his uncle Gus to live in...