Publications from Fox, Finch & Tepper
Iberia by Julian Sayarer
Synopsis: Finding himself in Lisbon amidst a pandemic, Julian Sayarer decides simply to ride. Through hazy landscapes and on baked roads, he pedals east. During long hours in the saddle, his thoughts traverse matters big and small – hopping from post-colonial culpability to the supremacy of an orange picked at the roadside. Across 900 miles […]The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
“Gloria Naylor was a shining light in American Literature. Naylor’s artistry is breathtaking, as is her gift for capturing raw human emotion.” – Tayari Jones Synopsis: From behind the battered doors of an apartment block, come the stories of a chorus of courageous black women. Each has suffered knocks and setbacks, each has lived a life […]What’s Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges
“If great characters make great books then What’s Eating Gilbert Grape is a masterpiece. I’ve loved this book for decades now and I can’t ever see that changing” – Markus Zusak Synopsis: Gilbert Grape has a lot going on. He is a grocery store assistant, the son of a hugely obese woman, brother to five clashing […]The Story of Mr Sommer By Patrick Süskind with Drawings by Sempé
“Mr Sommer is a sweet and rambling story rooted deeply in the melancholy of memory. The recollections of childhood are comic, the sort of tangles any boy – or girl – might find themselves in, but the lightness of such events has an ominous counterpoint in the figure of Mr Sommer, who strides across the […]Tepper Isn’t Going Out by Calvin Trillin
“Tepper Isn’t Going Out is a jewel of a book. Achingly funny in a bone dry New York kind of way, Trillin writes with warmth and urbanity about mailing lists, alternate side parking and life’s small pleasures. It is without doubt the great American parking novel.” – Catherine O’Flynn “Good for smiles, guffaws, and sometimes […]