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  As Oasis took to the stage earlier this month, I was busy doing radio interviews exploring the differences in the live music experience from the time when the Gallagher brothers first formed the band over thirty years ago. In a succession of calls with Radio 5 Live, Times Radio, Bauer Radio and a string

I had a lot of fun during the Oasis Manchester shows, leaving copies of Be Here Now around the city centre for people to find and claim.  Dozens of copies of the book were spotted and snatched up by an eagle-eyed public. I viewed it as dynamic pricing in reverse.  A full festival experience in

When it came to finding a name for the Oasis blogger character in Be Here Now, I knew straightaway what it should be – the man famously name-checked in the song ‘Shakermaker’: Sifter. Sifters Record Store is still going well in Burnage, Manchester, years after the Gallagher brothers frequented the place and sought his permission

Be Here Now. The new novel from Paul Carroll  – available from 29th May 2025. Perfectly timed for this summer’s Oasis comeback tour, Be Here Now is a wicked send-up of today’s over-hyped music festivals Corporate rock, fan rip-offs, festival sponsorship and greenwashing all get their comeuppance in this entertaining page turner Despite it all,

  Looking for something different to read?  How about a black mirror look at assisted dying?  Six extracts below to whet your appetite. EXTRACT 1 Dawn and Geraldine bond over their decisions to end it all with an assisted death: An hour later, as the twelve guests shuffle out in silence, Dawn points down the

  It’s not often a writer is invited onto the UK’s TV screens to discuss a parliamentary debate, but that’s the position I found myself at the end of April as politicians responded to a petition, signed by over 200,000 people, to discuss whether it was right to legalise assisted dying here in the UK.

Twenty-four book bloggers put ‘Don’t Ask’ to the test on launch.  The verdict?  They loved it! ‘DON’T ASK’ BLOG TOUR REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS “A rollercoaster of emotions. A page turner. This book is going to stay with me for a long time” @bookreview “I loved the writing style… you can tell every detail was researched well”

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Article reproduced from Reader’s Digest A rock in the gene pool? For his latest novel, gripping family drama Don’t Ask, author Paul Carroll has created an original and timely take on the classic whodunnit involving a home DNA testing kit. As he reveals, the idea for his book came from personal experience. While things for