The aliens at the end of my garden

...Extraterrestrial visitation is the faith of rural hicks in the American Deep South or of lonely English teenage nerds who can't getgirlfriends...

Times Online - Sunday Times

Brian Appleyard offers an op-ed piece plugging his new book, which in turn seems to get good notices.

Beware the aliens beyond Kirk's ken

...Like strange objects glowing in the night sky, inexplicable events and bizarre characters throng the pages of this book.The Archangels Uriel and Raphiel, once known as Ruth and Norman, preside over an interplanetary confederation in San Diego. Herds of cattle are relocated hundreds of miles overnight.A bestselling author is given an anal probe by extraterrestrials ...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1507415,00.html