My 90s memoir and cultural autopsy of 1996 – the wildest year of Britain’s wildest decade – is announced today and will be published by HarperCollins Publishers on April 23 2026.
It is a riotous analysis of that magical period of popular culture – when the worlds of music, football, politics, fashion, food, the arts and the media collided spectacularly.
As a young journalist on Britain’s best-selling newspaper, I was lucky enough to have an access all areas pass to the lot covering Oasis at Knebworth and Maine Road, the launch of the Spice Girls and Robbie Williams the solo star, Euro 96 and the rise of Tony Blair and New Labour.
There are run-ins, rucks, revelations and, I hope, thoughtful analysis of the changing role of the media, music and technology in our lives – alongside new interviews with some of the decade’s protagonists.