Tibor Fischer

"Intente ser una persona honrada. Lo intente durante mucho tiempo..., pero no funcionó", asegura TyndaleCorbett, un agente comercial en paro, cuarentón divorciado y sin dinero que suplanta por unos dias a un amigo en una convencion de agentes comerciales en Miami. Tras viajar a esta ciudad y salir airoso del encuentro, Tyndale, deslumbrado por los hoteles de lujo, la diversion facil y unas vagas intuiciones de enriquecimiento rapido, decide acabar con su cochambrosa mediocridad y aspirar alto, muy alto: de hecho, decide ser Dios... o, al menos, tratar de convencer a la ciudad de que lo es. Para ello necesita una parroquia y la encuentra en la Iglesia del Cristo Fuertemente Armado. Pero su apostolado no acaba de cuajar y Tyndale se jugara el todo por el todo con un milagro pasmoso: morira y resucitara a las pocas horas. Para ello, urde un plan infalible con el empleado de una funeraria; pero ¿acaso existen los planes infalibles?

France. A skint, clapped-out British philosopher meets an incompetent, freshly released, one-armed, armed robber. The Thought Gang is born as the duo blag their way from Montpellier to Toulon for the ultimate bank robbery. Ferociously funny, Fischer combines an extravagant sense of humour with a flair for the grotesque in this heady follow-up to the Booker shortlisted Under the Frog.Praise for The Thought Gang:Acerbic, dashingly inventive, very funny indeed Christopher Hitchens, Mail on SundayFischer has a unique ability to hinge the most unlikely concepts together... charcoaling ideas to gem-hardened, irresistibly funny insights Time OutHilarious, fast-moving stuff Independent

A skint, clapped-out British philosopher meets an incompetent, freshly released, one-armed, armed robber. Ferociously funny, Fischer combines an extravagant sense of humour with a flair for the grotesque in this heady follow-up to the Booker shortlisted Under the Frog.

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Under the Frog follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956. In this spirited indictment of totalitarianism, the two improbable heroes, Pataki and Gyuri, travel the length and breadth of Hungary in an epic quest for food, lodging, and female companionship.Praise for Under the Frog:A delicate, seriocomic treasure ?Salman RushdieFerociously funny, bitterly sad, and perfectly paced ?A.S. Byatt

Tibor Fischers hilarious first novel follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the revolution of 1956.

Oceane, successful computer graphics designer and former dancer, likes to travel, but doesn't like to go out; in fact she never leaves home. Her solution is to bring the world to her South London flat using satellite, the internet and passing foreigners. Her lifestyle suits her until she starts getting letters from an ex - an ex who died ten years ago. Utilising the services of Audley, failed mercenary and proprietor of a debt collecting agency, Oceane has to start searching the world to understand her past. Weaving from the sex clubs of Barcelona to the battlefields of Yugoslavia, this is an exhilarating and mind-blowing journey, with Fischer on top form.

Oceane likes to travel but never goes out. She brings the world into her home via satellite, the Internet and passing foreigners. Tibor Fischer''s novel is about what can be known, what evil looks like, why ketchup is important and how Lambeth Council was rated one of the worst. Reality constantly bumps up against virtual reality, as the novel pans around the globe from Brixton to the holiday island of Chuuk by way of Barcelona, the Balkans and the Humber Estuary, introducing a fantastical cast of irresistible characters and their stories - from sad whores and pseudo-travel agents in Lambeth to perfectly formed sexworkers and ''wetwork'' specialists in the Club Babylon, a Spanish tower of Babel where our heroine used to work and bizarre deaths kept occurring; and from a scrupulously devious debt collector to mercenaries and other hard men in former Yugoslavia. There''s a brilliant twist that jolts the whole novel into perspective, when Oceane starts getting letters from a friend who''s been dead for 15 years, and is drawn into a mystery whose answer might, or might not, be found as far away as Micronesia. Voyage to the End of the Room should come with a health warning (''This book could seriously mess with your mind'') - and it may very well be addictive.

A dazzling collection of short fiction, containing stories published in New Writing and the Times Literary Supplement, as well as several new stories. The Novella I Like being Killed takes the lid off the comedy scene in London, investigates where jokes come from and how you can make people laugh with only one toothpick and a foreskin. Other stories visit Brixton prison and German bookshops, contemplate the tanning of Russian bottoms on the Cote dAzur, offer advice on driving during Romanian revolutions, explain what to do with fifty uselessnesses, give tips on successful and painless serial killing and demonstrate conclusively that no-one should live in South London.Praise for Dont Read This Book If Youre Stupid:One of the funniest literary intellects Steven Poole, The GuardianA stylish, slickly readable, frequently schoolboyish, now and then absurd comic bagatelle which also manages, somehow or other, to be worldly wise, subversive, and not a little creepy Henry Hitchings, IndependentTibor Fischer is the Ali G of literature..... Perhaps the best tribute to Fischer is that he is one of the handful of authors of whom one asks in hopeful anticipation what he or she is going to do next George Walden, New Statesman

Eddie Coffin, filosofo allo sbando.Hubert, ex galeotto, dispensatore di saggezza ad ampio raggio.Rapinano banche senza colpo ferire. La loro strategia e filosofica: cambia di banca in banca.Si fanno chiamare la Gang del pensiero.Imprendibili, spettacolari, flemmatici, sono lincubo della polizia.Eddie ama tutte le parole che cominciano per zeta, la Blanche de Garonne, il sole e la filosofia piu antica della Grecia. Ha gestito un bordello ad Amsterdam, ha affrontato un elicottero sovietico in Afghanistan.Hubert ha un solo occhio, un solo braccio e una sola gamba, ma e un artista della vendetta e di tutte le armi. Inguaribile romantico, riconosce una compagna di orfanotrofio dallo sguardo sulla copertina di una rivista pornografica.Quando anche le rapine rischiano di diventare routine, per chiudere in bellezza, progettano il colpo del secolo.La rapina preannunciata, metafisica: in gioco ce la morte, o limmortalita.

Quando persino la kebabbara di fiducia gli nega il kebabbino superpiccante come piace a lui perché non si sforza abbastanza di essere felice, sarebbe ora di risalire la china. Ma a cosa si aggrappa, Baxter Stone, se gli affidano solo documentari impossibili, ha perso tutti i risparmi in un incendio e il suo cameraman e un vegano violento, bandito da tutti i ristoranti del pianeta per rissa o falsificazione di menu? Baxter ha un altro sistema, per governare il mondo. Si tuffa nel disastro e lo naviga; succhia il lato comico e feroce di tutte le cose. Schiva agilmente unautobomba a Baghdad, se la fila in taxi da un sequestro di jihadisti in Siria; il vero inferno per lui e la festa di un produttore cinematografico a Londra. Baxter e una calamita di calamita, un maestro di fallimenti fragorosi, ma strizza la sua dose di fortuna fino in fondo. È il cinismo che lo aiuta sempre a farla franca, e il suo sogno proibito e una vita tranquilla.

London. A city robbing and killing people since 50BC.The Vizz: an industry in crisis. Baxter Stone, a film maker and television veteran, a lifelong Londoner (who thinks he sees better than others) is having problems in the postbrain, crumbling capital. Swindled by an insurance company, hes in in debt; a Lamborghini is blocking his drive and MI6 is blocking his mobile reception. He hopes to turn it round and get the documentary series that will get him the Big Money. But what do you do if history is your sworn enemy and the whole world conspires against you? Is there any way, you could, for a moment, rule the world justly?Darkly comic, How to Rule The World follows Baxters battle for truth, justice and classy colour grading as it takes him from the pass of Thermopylae, to the peacocking serial killers of Medieval France, and the war in Syria. A trip from the Garden of Eden to Armageddon, plus reggae.Demonstrating Fischers inimitable talent for eviscerating social satire, How to the Rule the World is a magnificently funny read to stand alongside his best loved works, the Man Booker shortlisted Under the Frog, The Thought Gang and Dont Read This Book If Youre Stupid, all of which Corsair will publish in e-book next year.

The best fiction to read this year New StatesmanOur 25 most anticipated fiction books for 2026 Shortlist MagazineMy Bags Are Big, a darkly comic satire of wealth, reinvention, and regret set against the surreal backdrop of Dubai.Is it merely a long con? Is Bitcoin just a mighty payday, or have I gatecrashed one of the great moments of history? Up there with the enslavement of fire, the invention of writing, the power of flight. A moment everyone will be pointing to for thousands of years, as long as there are people to point. And Dan was there. Bitcoin rulz okay?With Fischers trademark wit, philosophical flair, and scathing insight into the absurdities of modern life, My Bags Are Big is a brilliant satire of masculinity, memory, and the costs of pretending youve moved on.

Eddie Coffin, profesor universitario y filósofo desencantado, depravado y borrachín, perseguido por la policía de su país por un asunto más bien hosco, llega a Francia, patria de Montaigne, pensador de su eleccion, y decide emplear sus conocimientos en tareas mas lucrativas y aleccionadoras que "en el terreno, arido desde hace siglos, de la especulacion filosofica". Se une, pues, a Hubert, un tipo que por sus malas costumbres esta realmente a su altura, para formar una banda de atracadores y vivir aventuras canallescas. En esta empresa le sirven tanto las ideas y los textos del pensamiento universal como la metralleta ultimo modelo: "¡Por el Zeitgeist de tu madre, entreganos la pasta!", y el cajero, estupefacto, les entrega el dinero; "queria saltarle la tapa de los sesos, pero luego me puse a razonar y pense: ¿que le habria enseñado la experiencia?", y naturalmente no lo hizo. A los filosofos aspirantes a malhechores, Eddie y Hubert les aconsejan, sin embargo, no probarlo: "Ser deshonestos es muy duro", palabra de ladron-filosofo