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September sees publication of LIGHTS OUT IN WONDERLAND, DBC Pierre’s third novel; in some ways the concluding fiction in what he has referred to as an End Times Trilogy.

As Faber editor Lee Brackstone says, ‘Lights Out in Wonderland takes as its setting, London, Tokyo and Berlin – and an earlier version of the novel (the original draft of which ran to over 800 pages) – included chapters set on the Galapagos Islands. As someone who grew up in Mexico, with an Australian birth certificate and British parents, now resident in Ireland, Pierre’s fiction is truly global: his imagination is fired by the degradation, perversions and abuses that dominate the narrative of these times, whether it be the circumstances around mass murder and the perverse celebrity this can bring, or a character’s pursuit of pleasure to the cost of all else around him.’

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DBC Pierre’s third book, LIGHTS OUT IN WONDERLAND, will be available in shops from 2nd September, and in celebration of the fact Faber have caught up with the man himself.

Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is thinking terminal. His philosophical enquiries, the abstractions in which he indulges, and how these relate to a life lived, all point in the same direction. His destination is Wonderland. The nature and style of the journey is all that’s to be decided.

Taking in London, Tokyo, Berlin and the Galapagos Islands, LIGHTS OUT IN WONDERLAND documents Gabriel Brockwell’s remarkable global odyssey. Committed to the pursuit of pleasure and in search of the Bacchanal to obliterate all previous parties, Gabriel’s adventure takes in a spell in rehab, a near-death experience with fugu, a sexual encounter with an octopus, and finally an orgiastic feast in the bowels of Berlin’s majestic Tempelhof Airport. Along the way we see a character disintegrate and re-shape before our eyes.

LIGHTS OUT IN WONDERLAND carries you through its many corridors of delight and horror on the back of Gabriel’s voice, which is at once skeptical, idealistic, broken and optimistic. An allegorical banquet and a sly commentary on these End Times and the march towards insensate banality, DBC Pierre’s third novel completes a loose trilogy of fictions, each of which stands alone as a …  (continue reading)