Kill Your Friends

Magnificently eloquent…A vicious, black-hearted howl of a book… Cripplingly funny * The Times *Brilliant. It made me ill with laughter. The filthiest, blackest, most shocking, most hilarious debut novel I’ve read in years * India Knight *Might well be the best British novel since Trainspotting * Word Magazine *An all-out assault, a withering, scabrous attack on every part of the filthy machine… Stelfox is a creation of unparalleled awfulness, chronically sexist, racist and everything else-ist. He is funny, too… You laugh though you know you shouldn’t * Independent *Niven’s insider knowledge, coupled with the kind of headlong, febrile prose that would have Hunter S. Thompson happily emptying both barrels into the sky, results in a novel that is cripplingly funny * The Times *Wonderfully nasty…Extraordinarily vicious, deeply cynical and thoroughly depraved, but it’s also bed-wettingly funny… American Psycho meets Spinal Tap… except more evil, more shocking and much, much funnier * Scotsman *A rollicking tale of record company excess…Hysterical…Niven worked in the UK music industry for 10 years and his insider knowledge pays off…This is truly an account of a lost era, a brilliant description of the last decadent blow-out. * Independent on Sunday *The fickle music industry is ripe for satire and here former record-label man Niven creates a compelling and hilarious portrait. * Shortlist *Dark, twisted…and also laugh-out-loud funny * TNT Magazine *Everyone knows someone with an encyclopaedic knowledge of pop or Radio One’s back catalogue. So if you’re fed up of second-guessing which albums are missing from their collection, but want a more personal gift than just another iTunes voucher, try John Niven’s satirical look at the music industry. Recently adapted for film, this is a hard and fast story based within the cutthroat music industry. Give this book as a gift and you’re sure to have any muso singing your praises. * Marie Claire *

John Niven was born in Irvine, Ayrshire. He is the author of ten novels and has written for a wide range of publications, including a weekly column for the Scottish Sunday Mail. He lives in Buckinghamshire.

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