Kill Your Friends

Meet Steven Stelfox. London 1997: New Labour is sweeping into power and Britpop is at its zenith. A&R man Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music industry, fuelled by greed and inhuman quantities of cocaine, searching for the next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification. But as the hits dry up and the industry begins to change, Stelfox must take the notion of cut throat business practices to murderous new levels in a desperate attempt to salvage his career.

Reviews of Kill Your Friends

"Magnificently eloquent…A vicious, black-hearted howl of a book… Cripplingly funny" The Times "Brilliant. It made me ill with laughter. The filthiest, blackest, most shocking, most hilarious debut novel I've read in years" India Knight "Might well be the best British novel since Trainspotting" Word Magazine "An all-out assault, a withering, scabrous attack on every part of the filthy machine… Stelfox is a creation of unparalleled awfulness, chronically sexist, racist and everything else-ist. He is funny, too… You laugh though you know you shouldn't" Independent "Niven's insider knowledge, coupled with the kind of headlong, febrile prose that would have Hunter S. Thompson happily emptying both barrels into the sky, results in a novel that is cripplingly funny" The Times