One Fat Englishman Iain Banks I tell my son

I tell my son

Zen travels north to an Italy as outwardly serene as Naples was manic

vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on people

and wonders if she is a way out of his dilemma

Julie Owen Moylan has created a world that feels completely real and vivid

One Fat Englishman Iain Banks I tell my sonBrimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make deals for his publishing firm in England, Roger instead sets out to offend all he meets and to seduce every woman he encounters. But his American hosts seem made of sterner stuff. Who will be Roger's undoing? Irving Macher, the young author of an annoyingly brilliant first novel? Father Colgate, the priest who suggests that