DEBAUCHED POP STAR HOWIE HOWDEN HAS LED A CHARMED LIFE - THERE HAS BEEN NOTHING A FAT CHEQUE, A NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT OR A COURSE OF PENICILLIN HASN’T MADE GO AWAY. BUT A CALAMITOUS NIGHT ON THE TOWN, WITH HIS TROUBLED YET DUTIFUL MANAGER EDDY KATZ, HAS CONSEQUENCES FOR BOTH MEN.

DOES HOWIE’S REPUTATION AS A 'LADIES’ MAN’ CONCEAL A DARKER TRUTH? WILL THE TABLOIDS - TITILLATED BY HIS ANTICS - CONTINUE TO CELEBRATE HIS OUT OF CONTROL LIBIDO? OR IS HIS LUCK FINALLY RUNNING OUT? AND WHAT PRICE WILL EDDY PAY FOR HIS OWN ILL-JUDGED FORAY INTO THE SLEAZY UNDERBELLY OF THE VIP LOUNGE?

‘As a debut novel, Glitterballs is top notch talent. Funny, acerbic, classy writing and a story like a five course meal.’

PAUL ABBOTT screenwriter/producer

‘I think it is magnificent - whole worlds in tiny sitting rooms. I’m very jealous. I’d love to have written this.’

JENNY ECLAIR comedian/writer

‘It’s so much more than a funny book.’

MICHELLE MCDONAGH writer

‘Infused with savage wit, Glitterballs is a bleak-black satire on the music industry, sleazy celebrities, and the grim reality of fame. It is a seething, acerbic and frequently hilarious morality tale of pathetic pop stars, those that perpetuate them, and the unfortunates who fall foul of their desperate behaviour.’

ADELLE STRIPE writer

‘This is absolutely STONKING, it’s like Tom Sharpe went woke.’

JENNY LANDRETH writer

‘Piss funny.’

SEAN CONWAY screenwriter

‘Wow.’

LEMN SISSAY poet

‘It’s that rare thing, a great comic novel with prose that sings; imagine the dark Northern suburbia of Peter Tinniswood crossed with a particularly grisly episode of VH1: Behind The Music.’

ANDREW MALE music journalist

‘It’s brilliant.’

HARLAND MILLER artist/writer

‘A fiercely sharp, cackle-out loud send-up of the misogynist music industry that turns its eyeroll-inducing vernacular into gleeful sardonic fiction.’

AUDREY GOLDEN writer

‘Incredibly funny, a tale inhabited by the damned, the damaged and the awful. Brilliant.’

MARK THOMAS comedian

‘Funny books are rare, and hilarious books are gold dust. Glitterballs is a 24 carat dissection of the hubris of fame. Obviously I loved it.’

BENJAMIN MYERS writer

‘Tears now, at the end. Just beautiful.’

JIMMY DOWDALL screenwriter