It's Wednesday morning. You hate your job so much you haven't done any work for two weeks and nobody's noticed. You share an office with a sad and obsessed Trekkie whose computer manuals are encroaching on your workspace. Your breakfast routine has gone wrong. It's your 29th birthday.

So you have the worst hangover in the world and you're on the Number 11 bus circumnavigating the dreariest suburbs Birmingham has to offer. The bottle of red you've been necking is nearly gone and the passengers on the bus are freaking you out. You sip into the Jug of Ale for a pint.

And now you're trapped in the gents by a man-mountain with only one eyebrow and if you thought things could only get better, YOU WERE WRONG...

Stickleback is a novel about men's need for routine and what happens when life intervenes. A funny, poignant and fast-moving tale of office life, drinking, drugs, love, friendship, clubs, football, computer programming and the perfect financial heist.