Rancid Pansies

Author(s): James Hamilton-Paterson

Gay & Bi Male Fiction

Gerald Samper is not a lucky man. Ghost writer of terrible celebrity memoirs and lethally bad cook, he now watches as his beloved house falls off a hill in Tuscany. But he and his guests have been saved from certain death by an apparition - in the form of a certain deceased English princess with great legs. Or, at least, that's how the money-spinning rumor has it...And so begins a farcical comedy of eccentric Diana pilgrims, dead dinner guests, bad opera and Gerry's specialty field-mouse vol-au-vents. Every bit as outrageous as Cooking with Fernet Branca, James Hamilton-Paterson's latest novel is not for anyone who takes royalty (or, indeed, anything else) too seriously.


Product Information

The hilarious new farcical comedy featuring the anti-hero of the wonderful Cooking with Fernet Branca.

Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2009.

James Hamilton-Paterson's work has been translated into many languages. He is a highly acclaimed author of non-fiction books, including Seven-Tenths, Three Miles Down and Playing with Water, as well as America's Boy, a study of Ferdinand Marcos and the Philippines. Gerontius, his first novel, won a Whitbread Award, while Loving Monsters (2001) was praised by the Sunday Telegraph as 'tantalising, erudite and ingenious.' He lives in Italy.

General Fields

  • : 9780571238477
  • : Faber & Faber
  • : Faber & Faber
  • : 0.22
  • : January 0000
  • : 198mm X 126mm X 17mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : General & literary fiction; Classic fiction
  • : 272
  • : very good
  • : 823.914
  • : proof
  • : Paperback
  • : James Hamilton-Paterson