This is definitely one for pre-existing fans, because while it's very cool Pete's hand writing takes a lot of effort to decipher.

Jeremy Harte combines folklore scholarship with a lively style to show what the presence of fairies meant to people's lives. Ultimately, this book is like everything else Pete Doherty has ever done - at times brilliant, at others annoying, but never less than interesting. The concluding part of this book is a comprehensive annotated bibliography of phantom black dog literature, including listings by geographical area.

Mankowski joins so many beautiful dots and creates a mesmerising story of social struggle and the shock and influence of the new. The diaries encapsulate the history of Doherty's desire to form a band, The Libertines, then ramble on about his own descent into drugs, supermodel girlfriends and new group Babyshambles. I'm walking up the Angel with my angel, past a group of swaggering young things grouped around a table squabbling and one of them asks why I am wearing a trilby and .

He takes on a very romantic, melodramatic tone throughout the book, but it is really just describing boring day to day life! The recipient is Jake Fior who co-produced the successful single ''For Lovers'' which Doherty released with Wolfman, and who can briefly be spotted in the video which accompanied the release.

The rituals of 'what we do on our holidays', funerals, stag nights and 'lingerie parties' are all full of 'unselfconsious' folk customs. Indeed, folklore is something that is integral to all our lives – it is so intrinsic we do not think of it as being 'folklore'.