My Prefect Cousin

The funniest book I've read this year.

Laugh out loud funny, as well as being a detailed and thorough look at a certain strange aspect of the British counter culture over the last 30 years, seen through the judgmental and jaundiced eyes of Eldon's most enduring comic character.

Kevin Eldon's excellent and often hilarious biography.

(T)he best fictional biography since Alan Partridge's We Need To Talk About Alan.

If there were any justice in this world, Paul Hamilton would have had his own dedicated TV series by now too ... It was always Hamilton's ambition to be a published poet, though. Yes, he is the embodiment of every "politically committed" performance poet who has stood on stage and tried to drum sense into their audience using the naked power of utterance. But the page lifts the spoken word to another dimension and finally, after years of being ignored by the establishment, the fruit of Hamilton's genius has been harvested under no less distinguished an imprint than Faber. Is his verse as good as that of TS Eliot? Let the buying public be the judge of that. We can, however, be sure that Hamilton hasn't been influenced by Eliot or any other past master.