Human Punk follows the lives of main character Joe Martin and his friends Smiles, Dave, and Chris across the next three decades.

A joyride to Camden Town in North London takes him to see his first band, but a late-night incident back on the streets of Slough changes his life forever.

Siberia passes in a series of recollections and romance with a Russian woman, Joe arriving in Moscow during the days of Mikhail Gorbachev, continuing to Berlin, where he crosses the Wall in the early hours.

Reviewing the book, the New Statesman said: "In its ambition and exuberance, Human Punk is a league ahead of much contemporary English fiction.

"[1] The Independent wrote, "The long sentences and paragraphs build up cumulatively, with the sequences describing an end-of-term punch-up and the final canal visit just two virtuoso examples.