f you're partial to a good detective story, preferably a comic one, then you'll find Rob Grant's Incompetence a particularly entertaining read. In a future that seems so close that you might blink and find yourself in it, the European Union enacts its most far reaching human rights legislation ever. The incompetent have been persecuted for too long. After all, it's not their fault they can't do it right, is it? So it is made illegal to sack or otherwise discriminate against anyone for being incompetent. Bad is the new good. And now a murder has been committed and our possibly incompetent detective must find out who the murderer is. As long as he can find directions to get him through the mean streets. What a comedy of errors ensues! Rob Grant's satire - for the imagined world of Incompetence is the world we're now living in - gave me something to think about long after the end.

'This kept me laughing until the very last page!' John
360pp, 110mm x 178mm, softback, 2003