Book Slam in May will be ineffably fun and cool. NED BEAUMAN, author of ‘Boxer, Beetle’ and ‘The Teleportation Accident’ and one of Granta’s latest batch of the Best of Young British Novelist’s introduces us to his new novel, ‘Glow’. He’s fun and cool. ELVIS MCGONAGALL is the smartest, sharpest and laugh-out-loud funniest poet either side of Hadrian’s Wall. He’s fun and cool too. And us? Definitely fun and cool.