About the Book Emma Morley and Dexter Meyhew, meet properly for the first time on the 15th July 1988, the night of their graduation from University. We meet them again, on the same day each year for the next twenty years. Each chapter of the book, covers Emma and Dexter’s lives on that day, following [...]

Back in Swindon, the government is reporting a dangerously high stupidity surplus, the Stiltonista Cheese Mafia is causing trouble for Thursday and the literary detective scene isn�t quite what it used to be. And Thursday shoulders the burden for the Acme carpet business, which is both a front for SpecOps and a real business for the underemployed.

It’s the last day of term. Three lads are clearing out their lockers, organizing a sleepover and hatching a plan to splatter a girl with rancid coleslaw.

But things aren’t what they seem.

One boys father is a member of ‘Dark Sun’, a criminal organization dealing in nuclear weapons technology, while another is a ‘CHERUB’ agent sent there to stop him.

One boys father is a member of ‘Dark Sun’, a criminal organization dealing in nuclear weapons technology, while another is a ‘CHERUB’ agent there to stop him.

‘Their names are Karl, Lottie and Nev, and they work in a coffee shop. That’s all you need to know. Actually, you don’t even need to know their names that much; you just need to recognise the sort of people they are – the care-worn balding thirty-year-old, keenly aware he’s on the final lap of his youth, the girl who frets about everything (but food in particular), and the chirpy big-eyed twat with one of those unfortunate faces that you just want to hit …’. For five years, “Bunny Suicides” author Andy Riley has delighted “Observer” magazine readers with his dark and funny weekly strip – “Roasted”. Now collected together for the first time, here are the ongoing adventures of three wasters in a coffee shop – making an essential guide to the modern world for fans and newcomers alike.

Jack Spratt – an old school copper – has ambitions to get into the Most Worshipful Guild of Detectives, but his methods and undistinguished career with the NCD are against him. Not to mention; his failure to secure a conviction against the Three Little Pigs for the murder of the famed lupine, The Big Bad Wolf.

I read, quite happily, grinning at all the correct places, until… Well as I said they’re hard books to explain, but suffice it to say, I started to giggle, then chortle, then made that spluttering noise you make, when you’re tying to reign in your laughter, because people are beginning to look at you funny, closed my eyes, took some deep breaths, and eventually opened my eyes again and slowly turned round to see who I was going to have to bribe with coffee to keep quiet…