He's a very uneven writer. He had great access to Oasis in the 1990s, so in terms of getting some interesting anecdotes and behind the scenes stuff, there's some good material in his books, but he also has a bad habit of putting himself in the story, which is annoying and used A LOT in "Forever the People." It's a few years since I read that one, but I remember one passage where he's talking about Noel complaining that everyone asks him about the Beatles and no one asks him whether he prefers the Jackson 5 or Sly and the Family Stone. So Paolo asks him and it just comes off as really pretentious ... as if he was the Noel-whisperer or something. He also writes about getting shut out from certain band meetings and that Liam and some of the others grew wary of him. I just remember feeling like the book took a hard left turn from "Here's the story of the Be Here Now tour" to "Here's how cool I am because this is the access that I had." 

It's interesting to me that Weller froze him out a few years ago considering their relationship went WAY back.

I also read his book on Steve Marriott, which was interesting because there's not a lot of info on Steve Marriott's life out there in comparison to some of his peers, but it's like Hewitt has a hard on for all these legends and tall tales and then he'll write in the book, "I asked Ian McLagan about it, who said this never happened." So it's basically, here's a whole page of this fantastic tale and a one sentence, "But maybe it never happened" capper. 

Funnily enough, I was talking to McLagan about this a few years ago, and he contorted his face at the mention of Hewitt's name. "Paolo Hewitt! What the FUCK does he know about the Small Faces? He only knows us because Paul Weller likes us. He knows fuck all about what happened, and yet he's allowed to write a book?"