Self Help. A Novel.

Advance Reading Copy. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 521. Yellow, printed wraps.

Author's second novel. Winner of the 2007 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Longlisted for the 2007 MAN Booker Prize. Released as a Paperback Original in the US under the title Pravda (2008), by Houghton Mifflin. An Anglo-Russian family saga inspired by Docx's self-confessed 'eccentric' family history, and set in present-day St Petersburg. "I was amazed at the detail of Docx's St Petersburg, with all its beauty and cruelty, similar to the style of Dostoevsky." –Financial Times