Fatima – Marina's former roommate. Though a drug addict when Felix knew her, she quit through Narcotics Anonymous. Boyle appeared as himself in the video game Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned (2009), in a stand-up routine at Liberty City's Split Sides Comedy Club. He appeared on Real Radio Wales's weekly comedy show Comedy Nighthorse on 19 October 2011. Part whodunnit, part social safari, part extended stand-up monologue . . . the novel is full of scintillating sentences and perfect lines of dialogue' Sunday Times

The last 10 chapters were undoubtedly my favourite section of the book. Nevertheless, I felt that they were throwing plot twists quite fast and accelerating the story to a pace we'd not met before, almost as if there was a challenge to finish the book soon and squeeze it all in! Boyle, Frankie (16 November 2008). "Confessions of an urban planner" (Interview). Interviewed by Roz Laws. Sunday Mercury . Retrieved 12 September 2012.Writing a crime novel now appears to be a well-established rung on the career ladder of white male television entertainers, achieved with varying degrees of success and skill, so it’s a relief to find that Frankie Boyle’s first work of fiction is an enjoyably dark and entertaining tranche of Glasgow noir. It contains all the deft wordplay you’d expect of him, and a few well-aimed, drive-by satirical shots at political targets along the way. Singh, Anita (14 June 2011). "Rebecca Adlington: I'm over the Frankie Boyle spoon jibe". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020 . Retrieved 20 October 2011. Confessions of an Urban Planner; Frankie Boyle The Big Interview". Sunday Mercury. 16 November 2008 . Retrieved 21 December 2009.

Docherty – an activist who Felix remembers from his bizarre scripts that he pitched to BBC Scotland. Reads like a twisted Caledonian take on Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye. Inherent vices and scalpel-sharp jokes vie with a very human concern for those least garlanded in the rat race of life' Ian Rankin Press Association (31 May 2018). "Frankie Boyle hunts football hooligans in Russia ahead of World Cup". Evening Express . Retrieved 29 December 2020. Frankie Boyle claims 'Apartheid' Israel jokes were cut from BBC show". The Jewish Chronichle. 22 May 2018 . Retrieved 28 May 2018. For a long time, having to do a stand-up gig would ruin my day". Scotsman.com. 24 July 2007 . Retrieved 14 July 2013.

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Reviewers found that the plot is of secondary importance to the novel's social commentary. [12] [13] It explores a post-referendum "battleground" over what it means to be Scottish or British. [1] The novel is set in the aftermath of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum and also explores Scotland's role in colonialism. Social commentary includes criticism of capitalism and liberalism. [12] Jake Kerridge of The Daily Telegraph found that—similar to Raymond Chandler's novels—atmosphere-building, misanthropic jokes and social commentary are prioritised over plot and the message is not nihilistic as Felix is not amoral. [14] Frankie Boyle is a Scottish comedian, aged 49 at the time of the book's release. [1] Meantime was Boyle's first fiction book, [2] though he had previously authored four non-fiction works: the autobiography My Shit Life So Far (2009); a collection of his columns from The Sun titled Work! Consume! Die! (2011); [3] a political comedy book, Scotland's Jesus (2013); [4] and a political essay, The Future of British Politics (2020). [5]Maguire, Stephen (22 October 2018). "Frankie Boyle attends Gaoth Dobhair's Donegal SFC victory – Donegal Daily". www.donegaldaily.com . Retrieved 18 January 2022. Logan, Brian (20 May 2015). "Frankie Boyle's Election Autopsy is too hot for TV – so much the better". The Guardian . Retrieved 5 April 2016. It’s impossible to read this book without hearing Boyle in your head as the riffing narrator. The battery of searing one-liners is aimed at familiar Boyle targets: capitalists, smug liberals, censorious millennials and Scotland (“You’d never get a Scottish version of The Matrix, because anyone up here who was offered two pills would just gub both of them”). And he regularly deploys the beautifully offbeat imagery that characterises the best of his stand-up. On our penchant for military statues: “This was Britain, and if you killed enough foreigners they let you ride a metal horse into the future.” I can’t remember the last book I read where I laughed out loud so much, was fascinated by the odd and endearing characters and didn’t really mind what the plot was. I almost gave up after a couple of hours. Obviously this book is heavy on drug taking and I found that got a bit tedious. Yes I know, not the author’s fault. The book cover has a psychedelic pill on it after all.

So far Boyle appears to have pleased the critics. The Observer reviewer, who happened to be Merritt, gave it a rave notice, calling it “enjoyably dark and entertaining”. The Daily Telegraph called the book “a gloriously funny treat of a novel”. How does it feel to get support from that quarter? “I’ll take it,” he says, although he admits that he hasn’t fully read the Telegraph review. “I don’t know that the paywall dropped long enough for me to finish it,” he quips. Donnie Wilson – Felix's depressed downstairs roommate, whose marriage is ending after his wife cheated on him. Though claiming to be a teacher, he is an undercover cop.

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a b c d Dugdale, John (28 November 2022). "Mystery, tension, suspense — the reads for thrill-seekers". The Times . Retrieved 31 December 2022. Dowell, Ben (25 May 2017). "Frankie Boyle' new BBC political comedy to air right after UK Election 2017 polls close". Radio Times . Retrieved 22 June 2017. I have a suspicion that there will be a strong correlation between people's attitude towards Frankie Boyle in general and their opinion of this book. The author can be something of a Marmite character and I suspect readers may react in a similar way to this novel. Boyle discussed the material onstage at a charity gig some months later, saying that the joke was intended to highlight how Price exploited her son, and that he felt the two aspects of Price's media profile, "her disabled son and her sexuality", did not belong together. He rejected comments that the joke may have led to playground bullying, saying that "I find it hard to believe there are kids at that school who would like to slag Harvey, but can't think of an angle." [68] Allegations of racism and consequent libel action [ edit ]