Was due to be in shops next week, but browsing through Waterstones in Trafalgar Square I came across a pile of copies. Yes, authorly pride got the better of me and I snapped them in all their (gulp) unsold glory. Today I’m starting the word of mouth trail on BBC Radio Kent. Yes, the journey…

One of my guilty RSS pleasures is Intern Alexis at Gawker and her weekly rating of weddings reported in the New York Times (previously satirised here), and more recently the New York Post. Sadly the absence of such public nuptial reportage in the UK denies social satirists valuable additional material. But seriously, are there not…