Martin White

The Cotswold Boy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a memoir of childhood in the Cotswolds in the 1950s and early 60s. Its focus is Stroud (especially Rodborough) and (in the book's last section) Gloucester, but it has a wider interest as social history. It presents a picture of a world very different to today's - its social conditions, the slowly vanishing culture (and in particular dialect) of the Stroud Valleys, the significant contrast between education in the country and in the city, and a wealth of sometimes humorous, often earthy characters. To this there is the counterpoint of a spreading post-war culture formed by tv programmes and pop music.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: APS Books
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 279g
• ISBN-13: 9798227677938
• Artikelnr.: 71861723

Autorenporträt

Martin White has had an unusual career path - paper delivery boy, restaurant cleaner and coleslaw maker, print finisher, musician, police officer, photographer, author-some of those things were not like the others.   Originally from the Scottish fishing town of Musselburgh, he's spent most of his life living between there, Edinburgh and now a quaint village in East Lothian where there are more things lurking under its picture postcard surface than most people would like to believe. He's pretty sure there's a book in there somewhere.   With a lifelong interest in dark and macabre writing and anything else in life that's odd, surreal or just plain strange, he sets out to tell stories where unlikely and often terrifying things happen to normal people living their lives in ordinary places.   When he's not writing scary stories, he can usually be found reading or playing guitar somewhere.