Having taken a career break from secondary schooling to further my own education with some post graduate study I’ve completed an MA in Creative Writing at Queen’s University Belfast. Dave brandishes a shotgun but is fatally injured in a struggle with the men, who arrange the scene to make the death look like suicide – an arrangement that is readily believed by Phyllis and the police. The capital of London itself has split into an archipelago, and the narrative becomes a bewildering adventure and religious pilgrimage not unlike a certain Gormenghast trilogy, and the complex nature of their quest makes the mythology and its lingo an integral part of its understanding.

When London cabdriver Dave Rudman’s wife of five years deserts him for another man, taking their only son with her, he is thrown into a tailspin of doubt and discontent.Having led large restaurants in Manchester and Liverpool, he’s found fame on BBC’s Great British Menu. As the highest point in North London, Hampstead Heath is transformed into a St Kilda like island at the southern limit of the country of Ing – itself a sort of resurrected Mercian middle England. In the first section, large paragraphs of italicised prose give insight into his mind, which is often just an outpouring of bile and racism, and we later learn of how he met his wife, ended up with a child and how he turned out to be such a despairing no-hoper with an incredible axe to grind with the world. com will use the information you provide on this form to keep in touch with you and to provide updates about World Book Day. Based on hundreds of interviews with colleagues past and present, friends and foes, this unauthorised biography charts Cameron’s path from a blissful childhood in rural Berkshire through to the most powerful office in the country, giving a fascinating insight into his most intriguing relationships, both political and personal.

Dave, our humble cabbie, present day London, like many cabbies holds the runs of streets and points of interest in his mind.

His life has been a series of wrong turns, and he lashes out at others so that he doesn’t have to admit that the fault is all his. In this examination of fatherhood and other themes, Self pursues twin timelines separated by a couple of millennia of history and apocalyptic climate change trauma, but connected by the eponymous Book of Dave. Initially Syz is thrilled, but soon things begin to fall apart, and the real world begins to seem less real. And no, I don’t have a clue to whom I would recommend it: both, best friend and worst enemy qualify equally. At the same time, reports of increased raisings of the Thames Barrier had led him to contemplate that a catastrophic flood of London would render even detailed archival knowledge unable to reconstruct the metropolis.

The chapters about Dave were very good, but the futuristic narrative, while funny for a chapter or two, was a slog, especially with the ridiculous Mockni dialogue.A rant against religion and society, a historical detective story set in the far future, and a tribute to the sometimes fraught relations between father and son, The Book of Dave take on grand themes in a grand manner and clearly positions Will Self in the pantheon of Britain’s contemporary greats. The water surrounding Ham is as dangerously cold as any contemporary winter night on the old North Sea. Not everyone has had similar reactions, though – a lot of my fellow students ended up abandoning the book before the end, which is forgiveable when you consider how many pages it has, and how tough it can be to work your way through it. He then buried it in his ex-wife’s back garden intending the extensive and incoherent epistle to be discovered by his estranged son. This got all humour of The Movie of Peter Cooke's The Bed Sitting Room a classic comedy about radioactive fallout when some one is turned into a bed sitting room .