Rough Music was published on the 29th September. Here's the first chapter: We’re standing, Pete and I, next to the closed façade of Aldwych station. There, in the distance, is Trafalgar Square, the crowds already massing around the fountains and beneath the column. I turn and smile but Pete isn’t looking at me; his eyes are fixed above us, at a plane that’s looping the loop. As we both watch, it climbs higher and higher, emitting flourishes of coloured smoke. Coo. Hark at me.

I had just got back from the cemetery when she arrived. She was on a motorbike, and I found that I was as resentful of it as I was of...

Lima was dazzling. At least, this stretch was, its low-rise casinos smothered in loops of neon. The sky seemed darker here but only...