Here’s BURN BEFORE READING, my @_pound_project book, in all its vivid green splendour. Books have been the greatest, funniest, most generous, patient friends I have ever known. In all honesty they were my only friends for the first part of my life. This is my love letter, and my thank you letter to those friends. It is also, I hope, a book that might become a friend to you, no matter what kind of reader you are. It’s only available to order from @_pound_project until 27 September. It has jokes, there are references to everything from Hamlet to the Babysitters’ Club, and the breathless enthusiasm of a nerd. (But not an intimidatingly clever one. I’m much more of a Milhouse than a Martin Prince.)