WINNER OF THE LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2022
''For those who know about provincial newspapers, this will be a classic and a gem. Those who don''t know will envy what they have missed''
MELVYN BRAGG
''Brisk and entertaining. A very readable love letter to a disappearing world, told with verve and tenderness''
STUART MACONIE, author of Pies and Prejudice
''Gut-bustingly funny, poignant and packed with astonishing insider information''
M. W. CRAVEN, author of the award-winning The Puppet Show
''Local journalism has never seemed more exotic than in this part-memoir, part-ode to that disappearing art, which is as funny as it is endearing . . . Told with a tender fondness, the bonkers, baffling but vital world of local press is paraded with the style that it deserves''
JONATHAN WHITELAW, Sun
''Refreshingly honest, engagingly self-deprecating, tremendously funny and more
