The best cities for book lovers in the British Isles
Strike out on the paper trail and discover six bookish cities with vibrant literary connections
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Strike out on the paper trail and discover six bookish cities with vibrant literary connections
Peter Gruner dons his best drapes and drainpipes to unearth the story of Teddy Boys (and Girls)
Peter Gruner dons his best drapes and drainpipes to unearth the story of Teddy Boys (and Girls)
This rediscovered mix of autobiography and ‘artful rant’ – about working-class conditions in the 1930s – is full of energy and comedy
In the wake of wars, youth cults spring up, those too young to have fought behaving in a way to scandalise those who did. The Bright Young People were the younger siblings of those who perished, battalion by battalion, on the Western Front. (Come to that, it was after the end of the Peloponnesian War