Louis de Bernieres Books In Order

Dog Books In Publication Order

Red Dog (1999)
Blue Dog (2016)

The Dust That Falls from Dreams Books In Publication Order

The Dust That Falls from Dreams (2015)
So Much Life Left Over (2018)
The Autumn of the Ace (2021)

Latin American Trilogy Books In Publication Order

The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts (1990)
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord (1991)
The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman (1992)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

Corelli’s Mandolin (1994)
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (1994)
Birds Without Wings (2004)
A Partisan’s Daughter (2008)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

Labels (1993)
Gunter Weber’s Confession (1998)
The Death of Miss Agatha Feakes (2011)
The Girt Pike (2011)
Talking to George (2011)
Station Jim (2019)
A Day Out For Mehmet Erbil (2020)

Plays In Publication Order

Sunday Morning at the Centre of the World (2001)

Collections In Publication Order

Notwithstanding (2009)
Imagining Alexandria (2013)
Of Love and Desire (2016)
The Cat in the Treble Clef (2018)
Labels and Other Stories (2019)

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Louis de Bernieres Books Overview

Red Dog

In 1998, Louis de Bernieres acclaimed author of Corelli’s Mandolin came upon a bronze statue in a town on Australia s northwestern coast and was immediately compelled to know more about Red Dog. He did not have to go far: everyone for hundreds of miles in every direction seemed to have a story about Red Dog. He was a Red Cloud Kelpie, a breed of sheepdog known for its energy and cleverness. But Red Dog was a kind of ultra Kelpie, energetic and clever enough for an entire breed in himself. Dubbed a professional traveler rather than a stray, Red Dog established his own transportation system, hitchhiking between far flung towns and female dogs in cars whose engine noises he d memorized and whose drivers he d charmed. The call of the wild was matched by the call of the supper dish; Red Dog s appetite was as legendary as his exploits. Everyone wanted to adopt him one group of workers made him a member of their union, but Red Dog would be adopted by or, more precisely, he would adopt only one man: a bus driver whose love life quickly began to suffer and who never quite recovered from Red Dog s relentlessly affectionate presence. Independent, clever, sly, stubborn, courageous and foolhardy, impatient with boredom and the boring, Red Dog endeared himself to almost everyone who crossed his path. These funny, surprising, and touching stories of his life are certain to endear him to every reader.

The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts

This rambunctious first novel by the author of the bestselling Corelli’s Mandolin is set in an impoverished, violent, yet ravishingly beautiful country somewhere in South America. When the haughty Dona Constanza decides to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, the consequences are at once tragic, heroic, and outrageously funny. ‘Walks a precarious edge between slapstick and pathos, never once losing its balance.’ Washington Post Book World.

Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord

From the bestselling author of ‘Corelli’s Mandolin’ and ‘The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts’ comes an iridescent gem of storytelling that is ‘by turns wacky, mystical, and altogether compelling’ ‘Washington Post’. A young philosophy professor is the only citizen in his country who dares to renounce his country’s cocaine mafia. This makes him the object of several assassination attempts and a national hero. His popularity, however, does not extend to the people he loves .

The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman

With the same ebullient storytelling, luxuriant prose, and irrepressible eroticism he brought to The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts and Se or Vivo and the Coca Lord, Louis de Berni res continues his chronicle of Cochadebajo, the Andean village where macho philosophers, defrocked priests, and reformed though hardly inactive prostitutes cohabit in cheerful anarchy. But this unruly utopia is imperiled when the demon harried Cardinal Guzman decides to inaugurate a new Inquisition, with Cochadebajo as its ultimate target. On his side, the Cardinal has an army of fanatics who are all too willing to destroy bodies in order to save souls. The Cochadebajeros have precious little ammunition, unless you count chef Dolores’s incendiary Chicken of a True Man, and a civil defense that deems nothing more crucial than the act of love. Part epic, part farce, The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman confirms de Berni res’s reputation as England’s answer to Gabriel Garc a M rquez.

Corelli’s Mandolin

14 CDs/ 17 1/2 hoursRead by Also available unabridged on cassette. Newly released movie tie in edition. The time fifty years ago. The setting the Greek Island of Cephallonia an idyllic world that is only slowly entering the twentieth century when the inexorable and transforming tide of World War II rolls onto its shores. Louis de Bernieres’s stunning novel chronicles the lives of the people of Cephallonia as they contend with the Axis invasion and occupation, and the unexpected acts of God and man that shape their lives during the five decades that follow. It chronicles the days and nights of the island’s inhabitants the widowed doctor, his brainy daughter and her innocent or deadly fisherman fiance, the wine besotted priest, the gentle strongman giant, the ancient political debaters down at the tavern, and the uninvited newcomers: in particular, the reluctant head of the Italian garrison the charming, mandolin playing Captain Corelli and his aide de camp, who harbors a well of secrets and shame. Corelli’s Mandolin is a tale of human tenderness in an age of barbarism. Stephen Lang’s film credits include Gettysburg, Tombstone, and The Last Exit to Brooklyn. He starred on Broadway in Hamlet and appeared in A Few Good Men, Death of a Salesman, and Saint Joan.

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Birds Without Wings

Louis de Berni res’s last novel, Corelli s Mandolin, was met with the highest praise: Behind every page, said Richard Russo, we sense its author s intelligence, wit, heart, imagination, and wisdom. This is a great book. A. S. Byatt placed the author in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. Now, de Berni res gives us his long awaited new novel. Huge, resonant, lyrical, filled with humor and pathos, a novel about the political and personal costs of war, and of love between men and women, between friends, between those who are driven to be enemies. It is the story of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire told in the richly varied voices of the people Christians and Muslims of Turkish and Greek and Armenian descent whose lives are rooted there, intertwined for untold years. There is Iskander, the potter and local font of proverbial wisdom; Karatavuk Iskander s son and Mehmet ik, childhood friends whose playground stretches across the hills above the town, where Mehmet ik teaches the illiterate Karatavuk to write Turkish in Greek letters. There are Father Kristoforos and Abdulhamid Hodja, holy men of different faiths who greet each other as Infidel Efendi ; Rustem Bey, the landlord and protector of the town, whose wife is stoned for the sin of adultery. There is a man known as the Dog because of his hideous aspect, who lives among the Lycian tombs; and another known as the Blasphemer, who wanders the town cursing God and all of his representatives of all faiths. And there is Philothei, the Christian girl of legendary beauty, courted from infancy by Ibrahim the goatherd a great love that culminates in tragedy and madness. But Birds Without Wings is also the story of Mustafa Kemal, whose military genius will lead him to victory against the invading Western European forces of the Great War and a reshaping of the whole region. When the young men of the town are conscripted, we follow Karatavuk to Gallipoli, where the intimate brutality of battle robs him of all innocence. And in the town he left behind, we see how the twin scourges of fanatical religion and nationalism unleashed by the war quickly, and irreversibly, destroy the fabric of centuries old peace. Epic in its narrative sweep steeped in historical fact yet profoundly humane and dazzlingly evocative in its emotional and sensual detail, Birds Without Wings is a triumph.

A Partisan’s Daughter

From the acclaimed author of Corelli’s Mandolin and Birds Without Wings de Berni res has reached heights that few modern novelists ever attempt The Washington Post Book World comes an intimate new novel, a love story at once raw and sweetly funny, wry and heartbreakingly sad. He s Chris: bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. In his forties, he s a stranger inside the youth culture of London in the late 1970s, a stranger to himself on the night he invites a hooker into his car. She s Roza: Yugoslavian, recently moved to London, the daughter of one of Tito s partisans. She s in her twenties but has already lived a life filled with danger, misadventure, romance, and tragedy. And although she s not a hooker, when she s propositioned by Chris, she gets into his car anyway. Over the next months Roza tells Chris the stories of her past. She s a fast talking, wily Scheherazade, saving her own life by telling it to Chris. And he takes in her tales as if they were oxygen in an otherwise airless world. But is Roza telling the truth? Does Chris hear the stories through the filter of his own need? Does it even matter?This deeply moving novel of their unlikely love narrated both in the moment and in recollection, each of their voices deftly realized is also a brilliantly subtle commentary on storytelling: its seductions and powers, and its ultimately unavoidable dangers.

Notwithstanding

A Frenchman once pointed out to Louis de Berni res that Britain was the most exotic country in Europe, adding that it was ‘an immense lunatic asylum’. Casting his mind back to the village in southern Surrey where he grew up in the sixties and seventies, but plagued by a novelist’s inability to stick to the truth, Louis de Berni res brings us in Notwithstanding stories of a vanished England which will delight readers of his much loved novels. The English village was a place where a lady might dress as a man in plus fours and spend her time shooting squirrels with a twelve bore, or keep a vast menagerie in her house. A retired general might give up wearing clothes, a spiritualist might live in a cottage with her sister and the ghost of her husband, and people might think it quite natural to confide in a spider that lives in a potting shed. De Berni res’ characters roam through the book, appearing in each other’s stories and painting a picture of an entire community. Here we find the atmosphere of those times as it was in the countryside. Notwithstanding is not about an imagined idyll; it is about people who are worth remembering, whose lives are worth celebrating, and who would otherwise have been forgotten.