The Groundwater Diaries is a heavily illustrated London travel book in which I use old maps, hallucinogenic high strength lager, dream analysis and an old coat hanger to help me find the lost streams of London and walk their routes. The book covers the great themes of existence - punk, football, feminism, beer, nurses, politics, free jazz, jellied eels, Dickens, offal, capitalism, sex and death. Due out June 2003. See it on Amazon here.

I wrote my illustrated Irish travel book Is Shane MacGowan Still Alive in the second half of 1998. It involved driving around Ireland Kerouac style, trying to sell a crappy little car with the help of a felt musical leprechaun. It veers off at various tangents of Irishness and I end up at the Miss Galway competition looking for some serious action. It was first published in March 2000. See it on Amazon here. And this is Jayzuz, the site I built to accompany the book.

Back in 1994 my first book, The Armchair Guide to Football came out to almost universal indifference. It's what's called a 'bog book', and had a shocking cover. I still really like it - it's a kind of a pisstake illustrated guide to the game. I got the rights to it back from the original publisher, so might bring it out again one day. With a different cover that hasn't been designed in 5 minutes by the production editor's granny.