Set in London in the summer or 2002 it follows the main character "Puppy" through his irresponsible existence, giving a great insight (if that's what it is) into lives of the "too much money, not enough sense" brigade otherwise known as the "upper middle class". Become a rock star against the odds, or a drug lord or something, anything, to make him an interesting character. At first he didn't mind, he says, thought it was a bit cool, even, though he says he didn't read the columns. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. From being people who could barely look one another in the eye when we began – so full of our own personal shame and angst were we – we ended the week hugging and declaring our love for each other, bidding each other weepy farewells with promises of staying in touch.

I think it’s pretty fresh for an Indian audience,” says Deepika Padukone of her new movie, Gehraiyaan (“Depths”). And she is British — with UK citizenship through her Birmingham-born mother, Soni Razdan, who is also a Bollywood actress (and a director). Useless white teenagers get parachuted into the story for the author to make a point that at least he wasn't a useless white teenager. Nirpal Dhaliwal - Heathcliff O'Malley for The TelegraphI’ve never supported black footballers taking the knee, especially when playing for England.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. But with this book I was just willing it to end differently and was so, so disappointed when it didn't. He says he hasn't done his book as a response to Liz's writing, to put over his side, but admits subconsciously there may be something like that going on.

Nirpal Sing Dhaliwal - John LawrenceLike many lonely people, I’ve often felt at my lowest when the rest of the world seems most happy – including sunny bank holidays, like this. His articles have appeared in many of the mainstream papers, including The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. The same could be said of the marriage of Liz Jones, confessional columnist extraordinaire, and Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal, bad-boy novelist.Actually I am halfway through this novel and I am amazed- extremely completely and utterly dazed by this glorius, dark, sexy yet vulgar, excruciatingly painful novel. The social commentary is initially interesting to take a young British Indian man's view of the world but it soon comes across as the author being bitter about the hand he was dealt. I usually just have a big glass of water and a strong coffee in the morning, then a snack mid-morning. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. 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 sex- an incendiary cocktail that explodes, changing him and those closest to him forever.