Y'know, sometimes, when we're lying together, and I know you're asleep, I can hear the soft sound of your breathing. I'm thinking that it was an accidental purchase, since it's definitely geared to an adult audience, but when you read the blurb on the back it could really go either way. A hilarious, original story for anyone who has ever been dumped, dumped or lived in a dump - with the cross-over and bestselling appeal of BRIDGET JONES, HIGH FIDELITY and THIS LIFE.

I mean I know people can hold a torch for people they loved but it was a bit overkill for me that he hadn’t yet moved on. I have no idea of what record broke the loadedly silent tension, but in all honesty it would be difficult for pretty much anyone to notice the next song played after the first time they heard Babies. In another world, this would have been their first big hit, and in a sense it was, but approaching it now it stands out as both half-forgotten (it has been rarely played live since around 1993) and – yes – legendary.Everything revolved around him and his feelings, and he certainly made sure everyone knew about them. We knew this world only too well – the same world as the video for Babies, which somehow looked like a glossy ITV pop show, a low budget early seventies German ‘adult’ comedy film and a filmed insert from You And Me all at once – and if it had previously felt like you just couldn’t say these things, Jarvis Cocker had just gone ahead and said them and somehow changed everything. To the already unlikely-looking list of influences already mentioned we have to add Barry White – an artist much maligned in the last couple of decades (i. Celebrate Mike Gayle's 25th year of publishing with this special anniversary edition of his first ever novel! To date Mike is the author of twelve novels including Mr Commitment, Turning Thirty and Wish You Were Here.

A book taking a look at every aspect of the very first episode of Doctor Who, including my feature on how John Smith And The Common Men might have fared as a real life pop group. Down and down we go, until there comes a point where there’s no other way except start rising, cos we just reached the bottom of the “down trail”! Don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed the book, I still found the occasional part laugh out loud funny, I was still rooting for Will to sort his life out. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). When Hodder Books offered the Squadpod an exclusive and limited PR run to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Mike Gayle’s debut novel I jumped at the chance to be part of it.Luckily I got past my silly male ego and embraced my metrosexuality, and a good few years later and I'm one of Mike Gayle's biggest fans. There’s his best friend, Alice, who remembers his birthday; Simon, his oldest friend, who he may not be speaking to anymore; Martina, the one-night stand who won’t go away; Kate, the former occupant of his hovel; and Aggi, the one who got away, his legendary girlfriend, the one he has been pining over for the last three years. After that it’s all feeling and free-association, the verses wracked with desperate yearning (“let me in, let me come in”), the chorus a descent into relief – but sad, lonely relief, the girl now deserted, abandoned.

Over the three years of its existence we interviewed many bands and artists including: Smashing Pumpkins, The Cranberries, Pavement, Bill Hicks and Blur. Stuck in a job he hates, a flat that should be condemned, and a mindset that has ruined his last three years, Will is desperately unhappy.Perhaps it was the move away*, or the freedom of release from his first long-term relationship, or maybe just Barry White, but suddenly sex is a source of wonder and excitement rather than worry. I've mostly stopped reading chick lit books because I'm about 10 years out of their demographic range and the older I get, the more immature and whiny the protagonists seem. Anyone who's ever gone through a rough breakup - and let's face it, that's all of us - will find literary comfort food in this book. I was also born in Birmingham — in my humble opinion the greatest city in the world with the nicest people too. People need to be protected from it, in the same way that no one protected me, namely Robin as it was his book.

Andrew Lincoln reads Mike Gayle's hilarious, original and Number One bestselling story for anyone who has ever been dumped, dumped or lived in a dump. COMMITMENT, so when I stumbled across MY LEGENDARY GIRLFRIEND - which happens to be his first book, I had to read it! The lyrics, the look and the music itself had all been rather hit and miss, and even when they been utterly wonderful, it had always been as the makers of outsider art of one form or another, always offering a challenge to any accidental listener.Ultimately My Legendary Girlfriend is pulp fiction for the Pulp generation, an old-fashioned morality tale dressed up as an enjoyable romp that should appeal to lovers of Men Behaving Badly and anyone who has suffered the ignominy of having a Sting song quoted at them to justify a break-up. Their music would become increasingly more polished, challenging and adventurous but somehow at the same time Pulp never quite sounded this raw and hungry again. There’s Alice (who remembers his birthday), Simon (who doesn’t), Kate (the previous tenant of his rented hovel). U. (Gone, Gone) later in June, which very nearly had Babies as the b-side before everyone saw sense and realised it was too good to throw away so casually, even in the middle of the clamour of excitement about Suede’s debut single coming equipped with two b-sides that were better than most other bands’ a-sides.