My Bags Are Big

Synopsis

My Bags Are Big, a darkly comic satire of wealth, reinvention, and regret – set against the surreal backdrop of Dubai.

Dan, a former tennis prodigy now living in self-imposed exile, finds himself surrounded by wealth, but haunted by his past. As ghosts of old relationships and ambitions resurface, he is forced to reckon with the emotional weight of success – and what remains when you get everything you thought you wanted.

With Fischer’s 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 you’ve moved on.

Praise for Previous Work

‘(On Under the Frog) I began Under the Frog on a crowded double decker in a London traffic jam … and soon found myself laughing like an idiot … It is a triumph … painfully moving, it is also uproariously funny.’ —The Guardian

‘(On Under the Frog) A quite wonderful book … He takes a serious subject … and is seriously funny about it … the result is plausible, insolent, sophisticated and hungry … Glorious!’ —Michael Hoffman

‘(On The Thought Gang) Acerbic, dashingly inventive, very funny indeed.’ —Christopher Hitchens, Mail on Sunday

‘(On The Thought Gang) An erudite web of digressions and ruminations intended to provide a portrait of the narrator's soul.’ —Sunday Times

‘(On The Thought Gang) Fischer has a unique ability to hinge the most unlikely concepts together... charcoaling ideas to gem-hardened, irresistibly funny insights.’ —Time Out

‘(On The Thought Gang) There are a lot of funny lines … Good to be God dramatises the neuroses of a man mired in middle age who is dismally disappointed with the way things have panned out.’ —Sunday Telegraph

‘(On The Thought Gang) Deciding that identity fraud lacks ambition, Tyndale Corbett attempts to convince the people of Miami that he is God. His inadvertent success has unholy and darkly comic consequences.’ —The Times

‘(On The Thought Gang) Fischer's fecund imagination keeps the satire constantly engaging.’ —The Daily Mail