Labels and Other Stories
  • Published: 11 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9781473547926
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208

Labels and Other Stories

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11 Apr 2019
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Louis de Bernieres is one of our most treasured writers and these stories show his imaginative range and unique storytelling power. The collection includes 'Gunter Weber's Confession' which revisits characters from Captain Corelli.

Transporting us to all corners of the globe, the tales in Louis de Bernières’ worldly and entertaining collection Labels and Other Stories feature a cast of unlikely and unforgettable heroes who can be found collecting luxury tinned cat-food labels, posting fish to the President, falling in love with dolphin deities and dining with Brazilian street thieves. And in ‘Gunter Weber's Confession’, we return once more to the Greek island of Captain Corelli's Mandolin and its much-loved characters.

Full of wit, charm and warmth, Labels and Other Stories shows the imaginative range and unique storytelling power of one of our msot treasured writers.
  • Published: 11 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9781473547926
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 208
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About the author

Louis de Bernieres

Louis de Bernières is the bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are So Much Life Left Over and The Dust That Falls From Dreams, the short story collection Labels and the poetry collection The Cat in the Treble Clef.

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Also by Louis de Bernieres

Station Jim
So Much Life Left Over
The Autumn of the Ace
Light Over Liskeard
The Dust that Falls from Dreams
Notwithstanding
Of Love and Desire
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Praise for Labels and Other Stories

Delightfully imaginative stories

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A witty and warm collection

Valerie Grove, The Times

This entertaining collection of 14 short stories showcases all the familiar tropes, stylistic flourishes and trademark deadpan humour that make their author such a pleasure… A delight

Simon Humphreys, Mail on Sunday

These stories often read like fairy tales for adults, and seem intended, above all, to raise a smile… they do this very nicely… Labels is an amusing and clever story, its absurdist tone well fitted to its subject

William Skidelsky, Financial Times

Louis de Bernieres is a very genial observer of human folly. These stories are warm and witty, peopled with fallible characters at the mercy of their own prejudices and insecurities

Eithne Farry, Daily Mail

De Bernieres is a singular, cherishable voice

Mail on Sunday

De Bernieres is a generous storyteller

Daily Telegraph