Totally agree…overcooked the repetition, got sick fed-up of the reams and reams of designer label namechecking. Yes, I get it - the 80s were my forming years and we all knew a fair few yuppified dickheads - but that doesn’t a good book necessarily make. Overrated pish…sorry Brett!

Although I am absolutely not the target audience for the 50 Shades series, I had a look at to see what the fuss was all about…You’re better than I am, I lasted 14 pages, each one a different shade of dross!

Irvine Welsh, Stephen King and Walter Scott. Quantity and quality.

A legendary book that went a long way in the coining of one of the finest ever jargonised phrases.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caledonian_Antisyzygy

Maurice Johnson’s double whammy of signing for Graeme Souness’s Rangers having been paraded at Celtic Park as a returning Celtic hero and in doing so, he became the first high-profile Roman Catholic footballer to sign for the staunchly Protestant Rangers Football Club.

May not sound much of a big deal now but at the time it was an enormous story. https://www.football365.com/news/mo-johnston-rangers-scottish-football-jfk