Tina Jackson
Jake Arnott is the risk-taking Flash Harry of British fiction – its arch-chronicler of gangsters, chancers, duckers, divers, wheelers, dealers, deviants and denizens of the sexual underworld. His 1999 debut, The Long Firm, was a story of 1960s East End gangsters that set out his stall in no uncertain style: underworld characters; sexual ambiguity; an insight into the secret histories beneath the glamour of popular culture.