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21 Jul 2024
One of a series of great reissued from London Books, who also published my novel She's My Witch (first edition not a reissue in my case). I haven't looked at my copy in a while & will try to located it in my jumble of books soon!
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16 Jul 2024
Talking about the reforgotten, this reminded me of Robert Westerby’s “Wide Boys Never Work” from 1937. I read the 2008 reissue with the Iain Sinclair intro, but must have been a library copy because I don’t own it. So I just went online and bought it.
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This week in The Stage 20 years ago, we reported on our Heydays columnist Simon Blumenfeld recording a Guinness World Record 👇 thestage.co.uk/obituaries--a…
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10 Jul 2024
'Night and the City' (1950) was adapted to screen based on the novel by Gerald Kersh. Jules Dassin who was under the suspicion for his political beliefs, never read the book while making the film. He was under pressure to finish the movie since he feared it might be his last.
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London Books retweeted
14 Oct 2024
The Angel and the Cuckoo Gerald Kersh youtu.be/g6iSdcIZ1sA?si=Vj_Z… a través de @YouTube
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6 Nov 2024
The book is by Gerald Kersh, the best selling author in Britain in the 1940s. I read his remarkable Prelude To A Certain Midnight. Highest recommendation.
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22 Dec 2024
My novel She's My Witch is not only a page turner, it's also a talisman that brings wealth, long life & happiness. You can rub the cover for money! This video proves it! youtu.be/Qpg7ZQFT7UM
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London Books retweeted
13 Jan 2025
I remember thinking Irvine Welsh was a bit over the top with Freddy Royle in 1996's "Ecstasy". But I know a lot more about England now.
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London Books retweeted
20 Dec 2024
Excellent. The Sopranos by Scottish author Alan Warner would be one of my 20. A great laugh
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6 Jan 2025
Sad little story here about great Scottish boxer, Benny Lynch.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=zSZeO8…
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London Books retweeted
12 Jan 2025
R.I.P. Britt Allcroft. As a very young girl she was selected by BBC to be an “ideas person” for young people’s programming. She was paired with Kenny Lynch to come up with something. They delivered Get It, Got It, Good.
Later Britt spotted an opportunity to buy the rights to the Thomas The Tank Engine character from the author Rev W Awdry. With Ringo Starr narrating Thomas & friends became a children’s TV sensation & Britt became extremely wealthy.
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London Books retweeted
14 Jan 2025
The Horse Hospital: London's overlooked cultural space faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-hor…
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𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐂𝐊 | THE SPECIAL ONES: CHELSEA BY THE FANS by John King, @MartinKnight
This book, compiled and written entirely by Chelsea fans, focuses on the memories of thousands of fans, moving from the 1930s to the present day.
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London Books retweeted
29 Dec 2024
If you think this has soul and personality which I totally agree with, you need to read the literature from that time by East End writers. Literature worth reviving and returned to shelves.
Look out for @London_Books who are doing that.
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14 Jan 2025
Time to run this out again. I have many more achievements to add to this list. #KennyLynch.
10 Feb 2024
Kenny Lynch
First British black man to write a top 3 hit. ✔️
First singer to cover a Lennon/McCartney composition. ✔️
Toured with The Beatles. ✔️
Shared a flat with George Best✔️
Appeared in a Carry On film✔️
Appeared in Til Death Us Do Part✔️
Resident songwriter at Brill Building New York. ✔️
Songwriting partner of Mort Shuman✔️
Wrote for The Drifters & Cilla Black. ✔️
Top 10 recording artist in own right. ✔️
Brother of Maxine Daniels, leading jazz artist. ✔️
Awarded OBE in 1970✔️
Featherweight regimental boxing champion. ✔️
Appeared on the album cover Band On The Run by Wings. ✔️
Produced You’re The Won That I Want by Hylda Baker & Arthur Millard. ✔️
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London Books retweeted
25 Oct 2023
Roll up, roll up. Change is good - is it f**k. John King argues that digitisation poses a bigger threat than Orwell, Huxley & Bradbury ever imagined. 1984 will soon be the good old days. spiked-online.com/2023/10/25…
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London Books retweeted
26 Mar 2024
Me, @AlanHudson_10, Kellie Maloney & John King. Some years ago now.
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2 Jul 2024
I’d like to take credit, Clive, but I think that evocative passage may be from John King’s The Football Factory. (There are a lot of Kings & Knights in this thread).
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