Satires of newspapers used to lampoon the news-gathering process; nowadays, it seems, there are richer pickings to be had in the lunatic world of lifestyle features. With a merciless accuracy that is both hilarious and (for anyone who has ever worked on a real-life features page) more than slightly unnerving, Bilton follows the fortunes of a pair of aspiring young hacks: Adrian Day, guileless enough to believe that a stint on the New Globe's celebrity features Me and my Pen and What I Did Yesterday will eventually provide a springboard for writing about the niceties of international diplomacy, and Martyn Bilton, an unreconstituted Marxist who becomes an accidental celebrity. The plot unravels towards the end, but the jokes don't slacken for a second - if you've ever doubted the integrity and/or intellectual capacity of the modern media, for God's sake don't read this, or you'll never read newspapers with a straight face again.