Rolling his own reality

NOW aged 48, Peter Finlay (aka DBC Pierre) burst onto the international literary scene seven years ago when he won the coveted Man Booker Prize with his debut novel, Vernon God Little. Since then, he has written Ludmila’s Broken English to somewhat mixed reviews. His third and latest book – Lights Out in Wonderland – has just been released.

“I will get a serious kicking from certain very established corners of literature over the form of this book as I have over the form of the previous two because it doesn’t have the form of a novel in a number of respects. It’s an allegory rather than a novel,” says Pierre over a sandwich and a beer in a hotel bar in Carrick-on-Shannon,