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Pascal Garnier, who died in March 2010, was a talented novelist, short story writer, children's author and painter. From his home in the mountains of the Ardche, he wrote fiction in a noir palette with a cast of characters drawn from ordinary provincial life. Though his writing is often very dark in tone, it sparkles with quirkily beautiful imagery and dry wit. Garnier's work has been likened to the great thriller writer, Georges Simenon. Emily Boyce is a translator and editor. She was shortlisted for the French Book Office New Talent in Translation Award in 2008, the French-American Translation Prize in 2016, and the Scott Moncrieff Prize in 2021. She lives in London.
'Action-packed and full of gallows humour' Sunday Telegraph 'Garnier's take on the frailty of life has a bracing originality' Sunday Times Deliciously dark ... painfully funny' New York Times 'Horribly funny ... appalling and bracing in equal measure' John Banville 'Garnier plunges you into a bizarre, overheated world, seething death, writing, fictions and philosophy. He's a trippy, sleazy, sly and classy read' A. L. Kennedy 'Combines a sense of the surreal with a ruthless wit' The Observer 'Tense, strange, disconcerting and slyly funny' Sunday Times 'A brilliant exercise in grim and gripping irony, it makes you grin as well as wince' Sunday Telegraph 'A mixture of Albert Camus and JG Ballard' FT 'Bleak, often funny and never predictable' The Observer 'A master of the surreal noir thriller - Luis Bunuel meets Georges Simenon' TLS
