We are back at the Jaipur Literature Festival at Soneva Fushi in the Maldives for this freewheeling conversation with the legend that is DBC Pierre! Pierre's debut novel Vernon God Little was the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award. He followed this with a series of acclaimed works in fiction and non-fiction including Ludmila's Broken English, Breakfast with the Borgias, Release the Bats and his latest Big Snake, Little Snake which is a meditation on fate, risk and luck. We talked to him about illicit reading in the barber's chair, writing tips and routines, hopeful books, debauchery, decadence and the necessary joy of plodding.Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour and the Ty the Beach Hut Guy Limelight competition on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Summer School Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.BOOKSDBC Pierre - Vernon God LittleDBC Pierre -Big Snake Little SnakeWilliam Golding - Lord of the FliesJames Michener - The DriftersNaguib Mahfouz - Adrift on the NilePeter Frankopan - The Silk RoadsWilliam Dalrymple - The AnarchyEvelyn Waugh - Decline and FallJames Salter - A Sport and a PastimeMarquis De Sade - 120 Days of SodomMarquis De Sade - JulietteHenri Charrière - PapillionDBC Pierre - Release the BatsSarah Knight - Grow the F*** UpStephen King - On WritingStephen King - Dolores ClaiborneAnne Lamott - Bird By BirdViv Albertine - Clothes, Music, BoysAlejandro Zambra - My DocumentsIsabel Allende - House of the SpiritsJulio Cortazar - HopscotchJames Joyce - UlyssesGrigor Narekatsi - The Book of SadnessKatherine Heiny - Early Morning RiserJoris-Karl Huysmans - Against NatureJack Kerouac - Big Sur Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.