I was in the local recycling centre yesterday and liberated this from the free book shelves. What kind of person would throw this away?

The dust jacket is a little tattered but apart from that it’s clean and brand new looking.

I could understand people throwing out really, really crappy books – and yet the shelves remain unburdened by the works of Dan Brown and Cecilia Ahern. Puzzling.

You really should buy issue three of Murky Depths.

You’d be doing yourself a big favour. It’s spilling over with great fiction and some damnably fine looking comics, plus it’s got my short-story: Shit New World in it (had I mentioned that).

So go, consume conspicuously, as is your wont.

Look, really, go and buy it. We’ll all be living in cardboard boxes when the recession comes so you might as well have something that not only contains great stories and art-work but can also be used as a perfectly serviceable blanket.