WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THEIR FRIENDS

Stuart Maconie is a writer, broadcaster and journalist familiar to millions from his work in print, on radio and on TV. His previous bestsellers have included Cider with Roadies, Pies and Prejudice and Adventures on the High Teas. He hosts a show for BBC Radio 6 Music (with Mark Radcliffe) every weekend morning between 8 and 11am. Based in Birmingham and Manchester, he can also often be spotted on top of a mountain in the Lake District with a Thermos flask and individual pork pie. He is a champion ice skater and once shared a van with Napalm Death.

'Exceptionally good' – Mark Ellen*** PRAISE FOR STUART’S WRITING 'Maconie is a funny, astute writer, alert to the absurd’ Sunday Times Book of the Week‘Observant and witty’ The Times‘As funny as Bryson and as wise as Orwell’ Observer‘The best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton’ Peter Kay‘A fine writer: sharp, funny, tender and thoughtful’ Spectator‘Maconie’s engaging, conversational prose is full of telling detail, jokes and deft quotation’ Telegraph