It is gentle and tender in all the right places, filling my need for a book to wrap me up in a hug whilst I read it. When Toby goes missing, just after the announcement of the publication of his first collection, This Bridge No Hands Shall Cleave, Brian becomes the number one suspect. Through the year, (the fictional) Brian documents his frustrating and pointless job, the rise of his poetry club nemesis Toby Salt, his relationship with his son Dylan (along with his terrible football team) and his would-be relationship with poetry club newbie Liz. A welcome reminder of the joy to be had when you put yourself in the hands of someone who knows their way round both a joke and a bittersweet narrative .

Subtle doesn't work for him so his tentative friendship with Liz, a woman he (literally) dreams about, is a bit slow to get off the ground. His ex-wife has taken up with a new man, he seems to constantly disappoint his long-suffering son, and at work he is drowning in a sea of spreadsheets and management jargon. His ex-wife has taken up with a new man, a motivational speaker and marketing guru to boot; he seems to constantly disappoint his long-suffering son; and at work he is drowning in a sea of spreadsheets and management jargon. Stāsts pats varbūt ir diezgan vienkāršs (un mietpilsonisks kā mūsu vairākuma dzīves), bet dzejas rindas ir burvīgas, smieklīgas un ar dažādām lieliskām atsaucēm. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.At work Brian is drowning in a sea of spreadsheets and is becoming increasingly confused by the complexities of modern communication and management jargon. With over 250,000 followers on social media, Brian has become truly beloved by the online community. If you want a bit of light hearted relief from the world around you, then Brian Bilston is your man. I saw Brian Bilston giving a reading in Grasmere and he was very entertaining and likeable so I would have liked to have enjoyed this book but after about 30 pages this stopped and by 60 pages I was just irritated.

In fact, when I picked it up I wasn't entirely sure what to expect even then, only that I loved the idea of the unique concept of it. His wife has left him for a more can-do fellow, his son has doubts about him, his cat does nothing but sit on him, he can’t get the hang of his jargon-ridden job or get around to reading any of his book group’s book choices, and a pretentious member of his poetry group has thousands of Twitter followers and a best-selling anthology.Imagine a mash-up of John Cooper Clarke, Ed Reardon’s Week and James Joyce, and you’re about halfway there .

With more than 400,000 followers on social media, Brian has become truly beloved by the online community. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. And I love him * Spectator * Highly original, genuinely funny and clever, with a gentle humanity in between the lines. I picked this up after reading his poem of You Caught the Last Bus Home, which was amazing, but the library didn’t have that book. But can Brian’s poetry save him from Toby Salt, his arch nemesis in the Poetry Group and potential rival suitor to Brian’s new poetic inspiration, Liz?He was a little slash lot self-absorbed (to the point of forgetting his young son's birthday - who would do that), never had a drivers license, rightfully got made redundant from a job where he did nothing and the only thing he seemed to strive for was to appear smarter than he actually was. Rather its his son who is hurt when he forgets his 16th birthday, his employers when he hides his complete incompetence, a mob of suppliers who go unpaid when he wastes all his redundancy money. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Given the ref to Sue Townsend at the end, I wondered whether it was Adrian Mole, but it's SO long since I read that I don't remember. If he is to regain his reputation and to have a chance of winning Liz, he must find out what has happened to Toby before it is too late.

So here comes Brian Bilston, using his gift of turning the mundane, the everyday into a diary entry and/or a poem, using the power of wit and the ability to mine the language for puns and other delights.Braiens ir šķirtenis tā ap 40+, kurš vada dienas neiedvesmojošā darbā, iet uz vīzdegunīgu grāmatu klubiņu (pilnīgi ne tādu kā mūsējais), kuram nekad nav sagatavojies, un daudz jaukāku dzejas klubu. Part tender love story, part murder mystery, part coruscating description of a wasted life, and interspersed with some of the funniest poems about the mundane and the profound, Diary of a Somebody is a unique, original and hilarious novel. Eithne Farry * Sunday Express * Bilston is no stranger to crafting cleverly composed poetry * Huffington Post * Part John Cooper Clarke, part Frank Sidebottom . Part tender love story, part suburban murder mystery, part scathing description of a wasted life, and interspersed with some of the funniest poems about the mundane and the profound, Diary of a Somebody is a unique, original and hilarious novel.