Dad's are ace, so are books. Check this lot out as nominated by our Saboteurs...
Boxing can be full of Bullshit, but Jonathan Rendall's 'This Bloody Mary' is a gonzo treasure that should be on the national syllabus...
Chick-lit is the shameless tart of the literary world, but Helen Fielding's addition to the Bridget Jones franchise shows that it's still going strong.
The New York-based cartoonist Lucy Knisley latest work is a joyous ode to one of the great pleasures of the flesh.
Sex is always a catalyst for a good story, but just how horny are the creators of some of literature's most promiscuous characters?
Infinite Jest (the clue's in the title) took me the best part of a year to get through – one-third the length of time it apparently took its au...
Thinking of becoming a beer geek? Mark Dredge's new book 'Craft Beer World' can help you do just that.
Author Tom Gillespie’s novel ‘Painting by Numbers’ has been nominated for The People’s Book Prize, but he'd rather be known as 'the next ...
Some writers seem to spend all day gazing out at the world through dreary, rain-smeared windows. It can’t do much to perk them up, but it has m...
'A Departure' is the first novel from GQ Norman Mailer Award Winner, Tom Ward. 'A Departure' is a 'horror story, road story, love story – a shockingly good debut novel about what happens when one world brutally ends and a new world begins...A cracking good read that has at its black heart hope, humanity and a dream of escape.' - Tony Parsons.
Star crossed lovers, charismatic bounty hunters and some of the sharpest dialogue in any medium, Brian K Vaughan's ...
Protagonists are never more interesting than when crossing over to the dark side. Here are the finest examples lite...
Terry Farley's forthcoming book is an examination of British youth culture, this extract looks at punk rock mecca, ...
With the toff at Number 10 capping benefits whilst trying to raise their own wages, it's about one of these literar...
The human soul needs travel to grow and be happy. Resisting this urge is like tethering a balloon in a gale. If you need a little help getting st...
Check out this extract from my second novel and win one of five copies while you're at it...
Bored of celebrity hardbacks and and repetitive thrillers? Step into the macabre world of French pulp fiction...
From Dexter in One Day to Steven Stelfox in Kill Your Friends, I'd let these fellas leap off the page and ravage me...
What happens when you cross book club with burlesque? You get Naked Girls Reading, an underground phenomenon that’s coming soon to a town near you. Plus a gallery of Sophia St Villier and her mates naked and, er, reading...
Focusing on one assassin's final mission, Nick Taussig gives the reader into life under the reign of terror under S...
Massive sales and lucrative film adaptations mean teen fiction is more popular than ever, but which books should y...
P.J. O'Rourke once said you should read a book that would make you look good if you died whilst reading it, so here...
Author Stefhan Bryan describes his sexual exploits (in fairly graphic detail) with a large array of willing local w...
Writers are a famously erratic bunch, but occasionally, this creative energy can lead to tragedy...
Ever wondered which coffee table books rock stars, magazine editors, artists and comedians can't put down? Wonder no more...
A bevvy of drugs, greed and excess, Just Business tells the story of one disillusioned 30-something stockbroker.
With Thomas Pynchon's latest work set to tackle one of the most controversial events in history, how can authors incorporate tragedy without verg...
Irish Times Journalist Keith Duggan introduces us to the world of big wave surfing off the west coast of Ireland in...
The End truly was the voice of Liverpool in the 80s, and at last it's received the recognition it deserves...
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They may be the most compelling stories ever written but thanks to prima donna authors, dying directors and the occ...
A look at why William Gibson's vision of a washed-up computer hacker navigating his way through a dystopian future is a vital piece of literature...
Swear Down is the new novel by acclaimed author Russ Litten. It incorporates an investigation into a murder in East London. The problem is, two people have come forward and confessed. Who's the true culprit?
Liverpool’s master storyteller returns with a foray into the crime genre…
You've got 20 minutes to write a story. Grammar snobs need not apply....
An offering of the best short reads for when nature calls.
Satirist and Writer Ross Keen has a new eBook out – ‘Plateau’ is the story of a Martin Martin, who, mid-life ...
If you don't have the time of space to create your own green paradise, a good book can always transport you there w...
Sid Owen ran over my foot in Asda.
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The government is voluntarily surrendering our place at the top table and the Am...
Every now and again we like to remind ourselves of this.
Never crack one of your back teeth again.
One fan's overdue love letter to the only comic to school its readers in Yiddish...
If you want to be THAT guy at the 5-a-side, here's how.
A new documentary about the Clash frontman hits screens this month. Here's why y...
Yep, just 'balls' now.
Guns + Bacon = Internet
On what would have been Brandon Lee’s 47th birthday we pay tribute to his fina...
Hammond and Clarkson are at it in the back of a Renault Twingo and the Stig reve...
John Inverdale has since apologised for his use of the word 'cunted' on the BBC'...
It's getting so bad authorities banned football completely in February.
Get your tissues, lads - we're going cryin'.
Yowsah, yowsah, yowsah, disco's chief raconteur sits down for a chat about Daft ...
"Living on is a prayer"
"I don’t masturbate over leaked sex tapes on moral grounds but I really think ...
Football needed something to make it choke on its prawn sandwiches.
Their new album is fat with tunes, but here's why one of their band members reck...