Begins travelling the United States alone at sixteen, works as a gravedigger, tutor, dishwasher, waiter, and bartender. Later studies Creative Writing in New Orleans. First novel Three Day Road ...

Smell being the most evocative of the senses, it is not surprising that literature is full of aromas. Now an Italian per fumière , Laura Tonnato, has tried to do justice to the olfactory imagination ...

The author's 1985 bestseller, Perfume: Story of a Murderer, has been made into a series. Audiences in Munich, and eventually around the world, are in for major surprises as the plot is now set in ...

You'd have thought the subtitle, 'The story of a murderer' might have helped ... a detail from the cover of Patrick Süskind's Perfume Most of us are guilty of judging a book by its cover, as we ...

Starring Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood and Dustin Hoffman. Adapted from Patrick Süskind's best-selling novel of the same name (15m copies sold worldwide), 'Perfume: The Story of a ...