Mission LondonThe new Bulgarian ambassador to London is determined to satisfy the whims of his bosses at all costs. Putting himself at the mercy of a shady PR agency, he is promised direct access to the very highest social circles. Meanwhile, on the lower levels of the embassy, things are not as they should be. With criminal gangs operating in the kitchens, police on the trail of missing ducks from Hyde Park and a sexy Princess Diana impersonator employed as the

As a Trinidadian whose writing career has been spent in the UK

he was made a Member of the Order of Canada

as it does with the best of jazz music

The cover artist is Mehdi Qotbi from Morocco

burns me up

This book records the journey in its raw detail

including the inaugural Forward anthology

remake the world

verve and hallucinatory strangeness

essential reading to anyone with an interest in the bizarre machinations behind the glossy front of showbiz

The Life and Works of Robert Gibbings (Primrose Hill

was born in Oxford in 1962