Richard Blandford: 4 books

A bittersweet novel about friendship, being a teenager, and the redemption to be found in rock music. Chris is learning guitar at school in an attempt to emulate his rock god hero, Joe Satriani, if only he can get the hang of ‘Streets of London’ first. But there’s another boy in his guitar class...

Phoenix Nights meets American Psycho Call him Elvis. The premier Elvis impersonator in the whole of the Cambridgeshire region. He’s overweight and bald and old. He is partial to cocaine, sells skunk to local teenagers and masturbates six or seven times a day. And he hates Elvis Presley. Things...

The short story collection the 21st century truly deserves They say it’s impossible to feel two extreme emotions at the same time. In the world of Erotic Nightmares, however, anything is possible. In ‘Pretty Boy Tigh’, a presenter on a pre-school kids’ TV channel finds himself an unlikely...

Tigh is the latest Pretty Boy on a popular children's TV show. The kids love him. The mums love him even more. So much that Tigh soon finds himself getting into a very sticky mess…