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  • Clare ConsidineThe idea of Quiz Trippers sounds like the plot of a mid-90s lad-lit novel: a team of pub quiz experts are thrown together in a camper van, whereupon they drive round the country entering quizzes and trying to win substantial cash prizes.

    TV highlights: 11/07/2011 2011

  • I was so, so sure I'd hate it British rom-com, starring Hugh Grant, based on life-affirming lad-lit novel - Jesus, where did I put the vodka and the razor bladesI avoided it like the plague even though it got such great reviews.

    If You're Hippy And You Know It juliette 2009

  • However, unlike 99.999% of the sugar-coated lad-lit out there, the hero's motivations resonated with absolute, brutal truth - and dovetailed perfectly with everything I've seen and observed in my life.

    A Bald Assertion juliette 2008

  • There are also Christian mom-lit and teen-chick books, and an author named Ray Blackston, who lives not far from Spartanburg, has even carved out a niche for himself as the Christian Nick Hornby, writing lad-lit books about single, pop-culture-obsessed young men.

    Rapture Ready! Daniel Radosh 2008

  • However, unlike 99.999% of the sugar-coated lad-lit out there, the hero's motivations resonated with absolute, brutal truth - and dovetailed perfectly with everything I've seen and observed in my life.

    Archive 2008-12-01 juliette 2008

  • I called Kyle Smith, author of Love Monkey, part of the fledgling "lad-lit" genre.

    Life of Brian: 2004

  • I called Kyle Smith, author of Love Monkey, part of the fledgling "lad-lit" genre.

    FB versus FWB . . . or . . . the demise of the FB 2004

  • He says he can't pass a pram without wanting to look in, which might faze his army of lad-lit acolytes.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • He says he can't pass a pram without wanting to look in, which might faze his army of lad-lit acolytes.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • He says he can't pass a pram without wanting to look in, which might faze his army of lad-lit acolytes.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

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