Scandal-hit professor Jason Arday’s autobiography is about to come out - and it has a highly embarrassing title

Jason Arday, the Cambridge sociology professor who became embroiled in a very public plagiarism scandal, announced on Wednesday evening that he would be resigning his post, a few hours after the university announced it would be launching an investigation into his conduct.

What had started as a row over Arday’s PhD thesis had quickly metastasised into a much more colourful one over lurid claims he had made about his life.

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Arday variously claimed he had run 30 marathons in just over a month, some of them on a broken leg – to the scepticism of experts. He said he had installed clean water projects overseas for a charity that denied ever sending volunteers from the UK to do that, and said he had a brain tumour removed just two weeks before the final examination for his PhD.

In his statement, Arday admitted no wrongdoing, but instead said he made the decision to “step away” from the “constant spotlight, where every aspect of my life is subject to public examination and judgement”.

Unfortunately for Arday, his autobiography is still slated for publication by Simon & Schuster in less than three weeks. The publisher has made no comment on whether its future is in doubt – but the review copies have already been distributed, meaning critics across the country are already reading it and preparing their articles.