Goodreads asked Oli Jacobs:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Oli Jacobs My most recent non-short-story book, Strange Days in High Wycombe, was inspired by the likes of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and also Withnail & I, as well as my own adventures in my university town as a drinking debauch. I liked the idea of a pompous character being the protagonist, even though he isn't that likeable, and watching him dig his own grave (so to speak).

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