Five Minute Fiction

Well, I never imagined I'd be sharing my abiding love for Nigel Williams with the world from a delightful hotel on the fringes of New Cairo but that is the state of play this morning. If you haven't heard of Williams, he's generally reviewed and regarded as "Britain's premier farceur" or "The new P.G. Wodehouse" or even just "this chap who's been been banging out some consistently great comic fiction for about forty years now". He reached his creative peak in the 1990's but took a decade off from prose after 2003, and has returned with two hugely entertaining novels in the last three years. Meanwhile, also in this week's episode, we unveil our new "voice of the Spoken Word" and things look a bit off-putting in the vivarium of Will Self's Deep Words. Enjoy it, folks, now I need to get up and find some coffee...