A satire on 1990s London hedonism, this book focuses on Steven, who works in the music industry. Nven finds the hilarity and the darkness of this world and he does not pull his punches. A slap to the brain and punch to the gut.

Elisa, Book Grocer

"Magnificently eloquent...A vicious, black-hearted howl of a book... Cripplingly funny" The Times "Brilliant. It made me ill with laughter. The filthiest, blackest, most shocking, most hilarious debut novel I've read in years" India Knight "Might well be the best British novel since Trainspotting" Word Magazine "An all-out assault, a withering, scabrous attack on every part of the filthy machine... Stelfox is a creation of unparalleled awfulness, chronically sexist, racist and everything else-ist. He is funny, too... You laugh though you know you shouldn't" Independent "Niven's insider knowledge, coupled with the kind of headlong, febrile prose that would have Hunter S. Thompson happily emptying both barrels into the sky, results in a novel that is cripplingly funny" The Times

John Niven was born in Irvine, Ayrshire. He is the author of the novella Music from Big Pink and the novels Kill Your Friends, The Amateurs, The Second Coming, Cold Hands and Straight White Male.