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1) Kill 'em all
Author
Publisher
William Heinemann
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Lucius Du Pre is the biggest pop star on earth. Well, once the biggest pop star on earth. Now he's a helpless junkie and a prolific, unrepentant sexual predator, massively in hock to his record company. The only way he can possibly pay it off is to embark on a worldwide comeback tour, but he's in no shape to do it. The picture is further complicated when the parents of one of Du Pre's 'special friends' begin blackmailing him. Enter Steven Stelfox,...
2) The amateurs
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2010
Description
From the author of 'Kill Your Friends' comes another hilarious novel. 'The Amateurs' is a tale of infidelity, contract killing - and golf.
Author
Publisher
William Heinemann
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Set in a near-future America, an America that has borne two terms of a Trump Presidency and is now in the first term of Donald's daughter as president, Frank Brill, a retired small-town newspaper editor, lives in a world where the populist policies Trump is so keen to pursue are getting more and more extreme. Frank, a good man, has just been given a terminal diagnosis. Rather than compile a bucket list of all the things he's ever wanted to do, he...
5) No good deed
Author
Publisher
Charnwood
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Following the divergent lives of two childhood friends, 'No Good Deed' is a funny and painful examination of friendships; of the strange currents of ambition, loathing, pity and affection that flow between people over the decades; and of men getting older as they fail and succeed.
Author
Publisher
Windmill Books
Pub. Date
2014
Description
'Kill Your Friends' is a dark, satirical and funny evisceration of the record business, a place populated by frauds, charlatans and bluffers, where ambition is a higher currency than talent, and where it seems anything can be achieved as long as you want it badly enough.