Notwithstanding (CD-Audio)

Immortalised as the creator of the bestselling global phenomenon Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, British author Louis de Bernières was born in London and selected as one of Granta’s list of ‘Best Young British Novelsts’ in 1993. Known for his immersive, picaresque fiction, de Bernières first novels were a loosely connected sequence set in Latin America: The War of Don Emmanuel’s Nether Parts, Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord and The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman. The success of Corelli ensured he need never work again but he followed the novel a decade later with Birds Without Wings; a Turkish epic inspired by War and Peace de Bernières said of it ‘'I'm one of those writers who's always going to be trying to write War and Peace: failing, obviously, but trying.' More recently his works have included A Partisan’s Daughter, The Dust That Falls From Dreams and 2018’s much-anticipated So Much Life Left Over.