'Hilarious and touching and beautifully written ... Philip Larkin meets Jeremy Clarkson, but in a good way. This is a middle-aged The Catcher in the Rye'

Jon Ronson

'Resembles an expertly-paced stand-up routine ... positively Izzard-esque'

Time Out

'Very funny. He writes in a sort of whimsical stream of consciousness ... even his more random disquisitions contain glorious nuggets'

Observer

'Moves at the kind of pace any thriller writer would give his eye teeth to maintain'

Daily Telegraph