DOUGLAS COUPLAND is the author of the international bestseller JPOD and twelve other novels including the era-defining GENERATION X and, most recently, GENERATION A. His books have been translated into thirty-five languages. He is also a visual artist and sculptor, furniture designer and screenwriter. He lives and works in Vancouver.

"A work of genius" Independent on Sunday "A tense, utterly compelling story" The Times "Enjoyable ...The way Coupland moulds his fiction from the throwaway debris of North American popular culture is quite brilliant ... Coupland has always been a highly compassionate writer, concerned mainly with the ways in which affluent people's lives are cheapened by popular culture" -- Scarlett Thomas Guardian "The pulse quickens as his principal characters hunker down for some besieged truth-telling...Dynamic engagement is the real meat of this slim but provocative novel" Independent "As always with Coupland, the ideas come thick and fast, they're quirky, often funny and frequently profound" Daily Mail