Twenty short stories. All stories having a certain twist to them, some just abruptly ends, some is weird, but they are all quite interesting. The book starts off with a three pages monlogue and ends with a ten question job interview. If you like Irvine Welch and other Scottish literature, chances are that you will enjoy this book as well, personally I have mixed feelings about short stories; on the negative side is that the stories you like ends to quickly. Not very surprisingly, there are many Scottish(?) words like ken and wee, but, as a Swedish person, there wasn't any problems at all reading and enjoying the book. The stories differ somewhat, as for example, the first one is a monologue, just one person talking to you, while Some Kind of Foreplay simply is a step-by-step "guide" (and not a guide for what you think). The stories Shafting Auntie Catherine and Finding Out About Lairdy made me think of the way P.G. Wodehouse and Damon Runyon were writing, and those are the stories I like the most.