The Shoe

The Shoe follows three days in Archie's life where arguments about football and the relative merits of his record collection loom large. The focus is on Archie and his group of friends: Davie, the Mental Kid, Richard, and Dostoyevsky, the intelligent, fun-loving, vegan Doberman. And all this has a soundtrack - whether it's Prince: 'makes God look like a prototype', classic Motown, Joy Division, or Van Morrison: 'awesome'. 'His characters fall in and out, mess around, bitch about each other and then all head off to the pub, leaving the reader shouting, "That's me, that's me!" If you want a literary comparison, imagine a chilled out Irvine Welsh.' The Crack 'A novel for the Walkman generation' The Observer 'The Shoe is the first fictional evocation of what it's like to be a fan.' The Independent