| The Blue Gate of Babylon | |
| Author: | Paul Pickering |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Literary Fiction |
| Publisher: | Chatto & Windus |
| Release Date: | 1989 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardback), (Paperback) |
| Pages: | 266 |
| Isbn: | 0-7011-3413-5 |
The Blue Gate of Babylon is the third comic novel by British writer Paul Pickering. It was published by Chatto & Windus and Penguin Books in the United Kingdom and Random House in the United States, was long-listed for the Booker Prize, became a New York Times notable book of the year[1] and saw Pickering included in the Top Ten Young British Novelists.[2] The novel received favourable reviews on both sides of the Atlantic.[3]