pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: BOY ABOUT TOWN
By: Tony Fletcher
Format: Paperback

List price: £8.99
Our price: £6.56
Discount:
27% off
You save: £2.43
ISBN 10: 0099558556
ISBN 13: 9780099558552
Availability: Publisher out of stock. This item may be subject to delays or cancellation.
 Delivery rates
Stock: Currently 0 available
Publisher: CORNERSTONE
Pub. date: 14 August, 2014
Pages: 368
Description: Tells the story of the author's formative years in the pre- and post-punk music scenes of London, counting down, from fifty to number one: attendance at seminal gigs and encounters with musical heroes; schoolboy projects that became national success stories; and life as a latchkey kid in a single-parent household.
Synopsis: 'I was no longer fitting in at school. I was unsure of my friends, and they were increasingly unsure of me. I wanted to be a rock star. But while all around, voices were starting to break, acne beginning to appear, facial hair sprouting, I remained all flabby flesh and innate scruff, with a high-pitched whine and not a muscle to my name. I was the runt of the class and rarely allowed to forget it. I had no father at home to help me out, and could hardly talk to my mum. So I took solace in The Jam.' As a boy, Tony Fletcher frequently felt out of place. Yet somehow he secured a ringside seat for one of the most creative periods in British cultural history.Boy About Town tells the story of the bestselling author's formative years in the pre- and post-punk music scenes of London, counting down, from fifty to number one: attendance at seminal gigs and encounters with musical heroes; schoolboy projects that became national success stories; the style culture of punks, mods and skinheads and the tribal violence that enveloped them; life as a latchkey kid in a single-parent household; weekends on the football terraces in a quest for street credibility; and the teenage boy's unending obsession with losing his virginity. Boy About Town is an evocative, bittersweet, amusing and wholly original account of growing up and coming of age in the glory days of the 1970s.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Windmill Books
Returns: Returnable
Some other items by this author:

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
Born A Crime (Paperback)
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Our Price : £9.48
more details
Just Kids (Paperback)
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Our Price : £9.48
more details
The Little Book of Chanel (Hardback)
Carlton Books Ltd
Our Price : £10.21
more details
In Plain Sight (Paperback)
Quercus Publishing
Our Price : £9.48
more details
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar (Paperback)
Ebury Publishing
Our Price : £9.48
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND BIOGRAPHY
 biography & autobiography
 biography: film, television & music


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 






Early Learning
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB) Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.
add to basket

Early Learning
add to basket

Picture Book
All the Things We Carry PB What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.
add to basket