A vision of drinking, drugs, culture, sex, politics and masculinity in the Midlands in the 1980s and 1990s.

I Don't Want to Go to the Taj Mahal tells the story of its author, Charlie Hill, living in the Midlands in the 1980s and 1990s.

In a series of vignettes, I Don't Want to Go to the Taj Mahal recounts Hill's experiences with work, identity, sex, politics, drugs, homelessness and dissolution, set against the backdrop of Birmingham at the end of the twentieth century.

Charlie Hill is a writer from Birmingham. He is the author Books, The Spaces Between Things and Stuff, and the founder and director of the PowWow Festival of Writing.