Kill Your Friends
Kill Your Friends
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Published:
5 June, 2014
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Description
***Now available to buy: KILL 'EM ALL, the stunning sequel to KILL YOUR FRIENDS***
Meet Steven Stelfox.
London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith. A&R man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry, fuelled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine, searching for the next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification.
But as the hits dry up and the industry begins to change, Stelfox must take the notion of cut throat business practices to murderous new levels in a desperate attempt to salvage his career.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099592099 |
| ISBN10 | 0099592096 |
| Number Of Pages | 336 |
| Item Weight | 237 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 198 x 22 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Cornerstone |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
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 *
Wonderfully nasty...Extraordinarily vicious, deeply cynical and thoroughly depraved, but it's also bed-wettingly funny... American Psycho meets Spinal Tap... except more evil, more shocking and much, much funnier * Scotsman *
A rollicking tale of record company excess...Hysterical...Niven worked in the UK music industry for 10 years and his insider knowledge pays off...This is truly an account of a lost era, a brilliant description of the last decadent blow-out. * Independent on Sunday *
The fickle music industry is ripe for satire and here former record-label man Niven creates a compelling and hilarious portrait. * Shortlist *
Dark, twisted...and also laugh-out-loud funny * TNT Magazine *
Everyone knows someone with an encyclopaedic knowledge of pop or Radio One’s back catalogue. So if you’re fed up of second-guessing which albums are missing from their collection, but want a more personal gift than just another iTunes voucher, try John Niven’s satirical look at the music industry. Recently adapted for film, this is a hard and fast story based within the cutthroat music industry. Give this book as a gift and you’re sure to have any muso singing your praises. * Marie Claire *
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Author's Bio
John Niven was born in Irvine, Ayrshire. He is the author of ten novels and has written for a wide range of publications, including a weekly column for the Scottish Sunday Mail. He lives in Buckinghamshire.