THE NARRATOR OF Tim Lott's fierce new novel begins by ruminating about the opposite sex. Not the 'other' or the 'different' sex, he points out. The opposite. 'As in diametrically opposed.' From then on the tension never lets up.

Daniel Savage is a bedsit-dwelling fortysomething. He works in advertising, and has recently been divorced from a horrendous first wife called Beth. Beth, inevitably, has custody not only of most of his money, but also their six-year-old daughter. With grim determination, Daniel sets about dating again, reeling from evenings of

Mar 2003

Save the Planet, Eat Your Pug

Never Work with Children or Audiences

It’s a Knockoff

Not Much Comfort

Night Plunderers & River Pilferers

Heretic in the Pulpit

What the Doctor Ordered

Joyful Logorrhoea

Serving up a Treat

Voulez-Vous Coucher Avec Cet Homme?

Turning Up One’s Nose

Fifty Shades of Success

Kiss Kiss

Culture Clash

Existence of an Exile

Grim OOP North

Horribly Sane

The Caribbean Queen

The Joylessness of Self

Savage Life

The Order of the Good Death

The Old, Nowadays- They’re All the Same

Insights on Indexing

Heart And Seoul

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