The Forensic Records Society

The Forensic Records Society is a novel by English author Magnus Mills published in 2017 by Bloomsbury.

Meeting every Monday night in the back room of The Half Moon public house the 'Forensic Records Society' is established "for the express purpose of listening to records closely and in detail, forensically if you like, without any interruptions or distractions".

These rules are strictly enforced which leads to friction within the fledgling society and the forming of an alternative "Confessional Records Society" meeting on Tuesdays with the contrasting invitation to "Bring a record of your choice and confess!".

Tensions increase between the rival societies, leading to 'bickering, desertion, subterfuge and rivalry'.

As mentioned in the review in The Herald, 'the device of naming only the titles and never the artists of all the records cited makes a pop quiz of the book's pages that even those whose obsessiveness is being ridiculed are bound to enjoy'.