"Well done for picking up this book. I was worried about the name of it, to be honest. Would anyone really want to be seen reading a book called Billy No-Mates? My publisher assured me they would. And they vetoed my proposed title: Elephant in the Room: How to Thrive Despite Your Enormous Penis. They said it ‘had nothing to do with the content’. And was ‘vaguely offensive’. And ‘seriously – can you stop emailing us about this now?’ Obviously, you have lots of friends. But you know that ‘men’ have a friendship problem. ‘It’s hard to make friends when you’re an adult male,’ quips the American stand-up John Mulaney. ‘I think that’s the greatest miracle of Jesus. He was a thirty-three-year-old man and he had twelve best friends.’ But while men can laugh at the problem, we don’t really know what to do about it." The brilliant Max Dickins explains #BillyNoMates, How I Realised Men Have a Friendship Problem. Find out more via the link in our bio. #ReadCanongate #MaxDickins #MaleFriendship #NonFiction