'Troutfishing' comically charts Steve's hapless decline from aspirational Mondeo Man to washed-up Baby Boomer, mirroring the decline of British industry at the hands of callous, southern-based politicians of all stripes.

“Duel of the Sorcerers” starts with the hero Paul Tian-Kermode, a young Welsh-Chinese orphan and trainee lawyer, sitting behind his antique Chinese desk above the family shop called 'The Chinese Epicurean Centre' in Liverpool's Chinatown on Sunday, 29th, 1916. It ends with Paul's confrontation with his nemesis, the evil necromancer, Gregori Gurdjeef, in revolution-torn Petrograd's 'Church of the Epiphany' on April 17th, 1917. During his physical and mystical journey, Paul learns that he is...