Paul Pickering is the author of six novels, Wild About Harry, Perfect English, The Blue Gate of Babylon, Charlie Peace, The Leopard’s Wife and Over the Rainbow. The Blue Gate of Babylon was a New York Times notable book of the year. Often compared to Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, Pickering was chosen as one of the top ten young British novelists by WH Smith and has been long-listed for the Booker Prize three times. The novelist J.G. Ballard said Pickering’s work is ‘truly subversive’.
