Paperback edition of the hilarious Man Booker-longlisted novel from the author of }Darkmans{ which is at once a historical novel of the pre-Twitter moment, the filthiest state-of-the-nation novel since Martin Amis' }Money{ and the most flamboyant piece of comic fiction ever to be set in Luton. 'English fiction's great eccentric offers up a typically riotous saga' }Guardian{