This book is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended. It's probably not even for the moderately offendable. It is, however, a dark and hilarious look into the lavish and amoral 90s music industry through the eyes of one of one of its fictional participants, the sociopath Steven Stelfox....
So. This book. Hmm what to say. I read a review on hear from someone saying its a bit like the TV show Californication. And yes I have to agree it really is. I had the actor David Duchovney in my head all the way through. There is even the estranged wife and teenage daughter to help that the...
John Niven is an exception author, not doubt about that. I enjoyed Straight White Male although not as much as Kill Your Friends or the Second Coming which were exceptionally brilliant.Not so much laugh out loud funny, but rather cringeingly against you will sort of funnny, this book hooks you in...
It was the last period of the day and everyone was tired and listless in the hot, late-spring classroom. Miss Gilchrist had colourful, kind of funny philosophical posters on her walls: a cartoon child on a stool, fist on chin, thinking, with a bubble above his head saying, ‘Sometimes I sits and t...
All strictly B-list, however; the brief appearance of Cyrus Cheeks had aroused the only real flicker of interest in the media centre all morning. In years gone by the days running up to the opening Thursday of the competition used to be a quiet time for the players: practice rounds in the morning...
Three of them were dozing in armchairs upholstered in that cheap, easy-to-clean vinyl. The fourth – Ms Ethel Merriman – was in her wheelchair over by the windows, munching boiled sweets and leafing through some photographs. Julie was mopping – old Mr Grant, too much tea this morning, quite a floo...