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Fat, when it comes to the publishing industry, is the new thin. Or black. Either way, it's the big topic of the moment. But it might be best to wait until after Christmas before you read this surprisingly tasty novel. Or maybe not, because if there's a message here, it's to throw away the diet books and embrace your size with swagger, unless you happen to be devastatingly thin. Then you need serious help.
Rob Grant is the overweight creator of Red Dwarf and author of several best-selling novels. More fable than polemic, Fat follows the lives of three individuals, each concerned with very different...