I picked this up in the Edinburgh Book Festival last year, and finally finished it just before I went back to Japan after New Year (keeping my weight down on the plane!). It's a bunch of pretty funny short stories, some with magical realism elements, although some of them are just building up to a lame punchline.

I liked it a lot - Glasgow and Edinburgh may be quite different, but I like to think we're cut from the same cloth ultimately, which shows in our sense of humour.

The quote on the cover - Irvine Welsh meets Limmy - is pretty accurate. Mixes the weird humour of the latter with the short stories about social realism of the former. ( )

Not bad for a beginning author - funny but not all that much. The main problem is that the ends of most of these stories, even those really funny throughout like eg Posh Cunt, tend to be somewhat anticlimactic. And having one story much longer than any of the others put into the middle of the book is a great idea, except that I disliked this particular story (it doesn't have an antihero, it has a repulsive "hero"). ( )