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We at Penguin Random House Australia acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians and the first storytellers of the lands on which we live and work. He says he's now found a writing style he feels comfortable with, "a way I actually talk to my mates", though he leaves out the you-knows and know-what-I-means that pepper his conversation. A successful but middle aged and somewhat pathetic male character gets parachuted into the story just to make some point about the author at least not being white and pathetic.

I have a new circle of friends who I can be emotionally honest with, and a new, more open, attitude to the people I had in my life before.This is a book about a disenfranchised, lazy, selfish, dishonest, decadent loser whose story reels you in. As the afternoon goes by and the drinks go down (vodka and tonic for him, beer for me), the Paxman-keen edge to my interviewing technique becomes slightly blunted by the alcohol. Nirpal Dhaliwal - Heathcliff O'Malley for The TelegraphI’ve never supported black footballers taking the knee, especially when playing for England. I hope not- I mean I wouldnt wannna be the girl who missed out on all those dirty sexy hardcore knicker wetting thoughts.

It's always there, though - he doesn't stop being an ethnic minority, he doesn't pretend there aren't different takes on things.This week, I found myself reflecting on our age-gap marriage after reading about the wedding of Lady Kitty Spencer, 30, to 62-year-old billionaire Michael Lewis. There's only one person who looks south Asian (both Nirpal's parents came from Indian Punjab and settled in west London). The rugged, fiddle-fit 37-year-old former Royal Marine commando then crouches, pulling up imaginary clawfuls of plumage.

Speaking no English and aged 20, raised in a simple Punjabi village, she found herself stranded with a violent, hard-drinking adulterer who made his hatred towards her apparent from the beginning. For four straight years, from the age of 38, I suffered a continuous enveloping depression that ruined my career and relationships and had me regularly thinking of killing myself. Bhupinder 'Puppy' Singh Johal - handsome, rakish and spiritually disenfranchised - has left behind the immigrant neighbourhood of Southall to mix with the elite of metropolitan London society. I usually just have a big glass of water and a strong coffee in the morning, then a snack mid-morning. Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal is a freelance journalist, his writing has appeared in The Times, the Guardian and the Evening Standard.I don't like him, or any of his friends, or some of the list-like ways the characters "discuss" current issues, but the book is interesting and was great company on a flight from London to North America. Dhaliwal's eyes, seen through his famously long eyelashes (both his book and his wife's mention them approvingly) glint with excitement.