Inside gang culture

Set in 1999, Arnott's third novel continues the lives of various characters established in his previous two, but this time introduces a mischievous, post-modern twist.

In his portrait of a young middle-class film-maker desperate to make an authentic film about London's mythical gang culture, Arnott delivers a beacon-bright satire of recent, crass cultural appropriations of London circa 1966, while exploring the emotional fallout of his own characters' torrid personal history.

This is not Arnott's most subtle novel, but in having the last word it achieves its own, curious literary triumph.