Virginie Despentes

I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the frigid, the unfucked and the unfuckables, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh, and for all those guys who don't want to be protectors, for those who would like to be but don't know how, for those who are not ambitious, competitive, or well-endowed....

"The book of the moment" Sunday Times A Guardian Book of the Year "Highly entertaining . . . subtle and complex" Guardian "Despentes at her very best" New European "Full of emotional suspense" FT "Brilliant - funny, wise and completely addictive - a work of angry, outrageous and hilarious genius" VICTORIA HISLOP "Full of energy and blistering rationality" LISA McINERNEY...

Sunday Times Best Books of 2018 "Funny, irreverent and scathing" Guardian "Virginie Despentes is a true original, a punk rock George Eliot" — ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN, author of You Too Could Have a Body Like Mine Rock star Alexandre Bleach might be dead, but he has a secret. It's a secret that concerns several people, but the only person who can...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018 WHO IS VERNON SUBUTEX? An urban legend. A fall from grace. The mirror who reflects us all. Vernon Subutex One tells the story of Vernon Subutex, who was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Bastille. His legend spread throughout Paris, but by the 2000s, his shop is struggling. With...

"The book of the moment" Sunday Times "Highly entertaining . . . subtle and complex" Guardian "Despentes at her very best" New European "Brilliant - funny, wise and completely addictive" VICTORIA HISLOP "Full of energy and blistering rationality" LISA McINERNEY Dear Dickhead, I read the piece you posted on Insta. You're like a pigeon shitting on my shoulder as you...