Michael, Shamir and I were among the few darkies there that night; other than sexual difference, it wasn't a very mixed crowd. Nirpal Dhaliwal is a novelist and journalist whose work has appeared in the Financial Times, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, Haaretz, and India Today. His articles have appeared in many of the mainstream papers, including The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. I'm sure the author was trying to tell the reader something but couldn't figure out what exactly it was. I've never seen her drunk, she almost never uses bad language, she can count the number of men she's slept with on one hand.

Dhaliwal (and by proxy; Puppy) makes some striking (and controversial) observations about the social milieu of an early noughties London - but the novel is all the better for it. We carry a wide selection of titles in sci fi fantasy and horror, The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Puppy's day begins with smoking cigarettes and either hanging with his rich friends and taking drugs, or hanging with his loser friends and drinking alcohol. As I recognised how trapped I had been in the patterns of my upbringing, I came to realise that my parents had been equally trapped and that, despite all the damage they inflicted, they had loved me and done their best. In her Daily Mail column, Jones admitted to stealing his sperm by retrieving the contents of a used condom in an attempt to become pregnant.She actually explicitly said once that she was grateful to the column for helping to find resolution in arguments. You go to India and you see a country taking the most courageous steps to emulate what we have here: constitutional democracy and freedom of expression and the rule of law. The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.

In 1973, aged 23, my dad, who had moved to the UK from Punjab with his family in the 1950s, came home on leave from Belize, where he served with the British Army. The blurb on the book jacket says Nirpal is set to become the British Michel Houellebecq, a comparison he certainly wouldn't have a problem with, though I think Houellebecq-light would be a more accurate description. It's refreshingly ladd-ish in its writing like most lad magazines and the honesty/aimlessness can be cutting but at the end of the day, it's fiction and we take away what we want to read about it of the Asian immigrant/GBLT experience. This was not in fact a euphemism for napping: Dhaliwal has produced a book that has become one of the most controversial, hotly tipped reads this year. Most agreed she is a bit nuts, and that it's not healthy for a relationship to be kept in a goldfish bowl.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Using whatever and whoever he can, Puppy explores the grit and glamour of a city seething with the possibilities and politics of money, race and an incendiary cocktail that explodes, changing him and those closest to him forever. She's been a rock for me, she's been an absolutely brilliant wife to me, the best friend a person could want.

I know what he got in his A-levels, how he feels about going up ladders, when he dumped his girlfriend, how he paid for the flowers he gave her when they got back together, whether he has paid for sex, how often he farts, how he behaved at his wedding and what his penis looks like in the bath (four As, terrified, her birthday, her credit card, yes, almost constantly, quite badly and a periscope, respectively). As the afternoon goes by and the drinks go down (vodka and tonic for him, beer for me), the Paxman-keen edge to my interviewing technique becomes slightly blunted by the alcohol.The novel is easy to read and I got through it in a weekend, but I'd never recommend it to a friend. People come here for the freedoms that this country allows them, not just for the economic benefits.