A bit about the author:

Books? Here: big fan of the Beat Gen. a la Ginsberg (Howl, Kaddish), Kerouac (On the Road, Dharma Bums, the Subterraneans). Move on (back?) to the modernists, affecting a taste for Joyce; throw in a bit of French existentialism: Camus; dystopia w/ Huxley & Orwell (of course); Vonnegut & Joseph Heller. Turn things arse about face, now for something completely different: Evelyn Waugh (BRIDESHEAD!); Maugham (Of Human Bondage, YES) and a modern affair in Stephen Fry, Bret Easton Ellis and Ben Elton. Some BIGGIES in Whitman, Wilde, Salinger, Keats & Byron. Name drop, name drop, name drop, you get the idea.