David Whitehouse

Photograph by James Leighton Burns

About The Author

David Whitehouse is the author of Mobile Library and Bed, winner of the 2012 Betty Trask Prize and published in eighteen countries. He has several TV and film projects in development with Film4, Warp, the BBC, and others. In the UK, he writes regularly for the Guardian and The Times and is currently the Editor-at-Large of ShortList magazine.

Books by David Whitehouse

Mobile Library

A Novel

By David Whitehouse
From the award-winning novelist David Whitehouse, hailed by The New York Times as “a writer to watch,” a tragicomic adventure about a troubled adolescent boy who escapes his small town in a stolen library-on-wheels.
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Bed

A Novel

By David Whitehouse
Now in paperback, David Whitehouse’s “ingenious” (The New York Times), “deeply affecting” (People) and award-winning debut novel about two brothers, obesity, celebrity, and the redemptive power of love.

Mal Ede, a child of untamed manners and unbounded curiosity, is...
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