Louis de Bernieres: Labels

Hardie Grant Books

$19.95

This is a very small, hard-cover book, illustrated in pen and ink.

A nice little product, the packaging is as good as you'd expect, given the subject matter of the book which, beyond obsession, is to do with packaging and one man's response to it.

You'll have finished reading it just a few minutes after you've begun, but in those few minutes you'll have had a range of responses and been sated, in the way you would be if you had eaten a very small but very rich ... pate, for instance.

To say more would be to give the story away.

Louis de Bernieres is good at small, chilling stories of grim humour.

This tale of obsession is awful and wonderful and will make an excellent gift.