FANCY A JOB AS AN APPRENTICE COMPOSITOR*?
(*a snotty-nosed subclass of the primitive species Homo erectus)
A tongue-in-cheek autobiography of an apprentice compositor learning his trade in London’s Old Covent Garden during the so-called swinging ‘Sixties, when youth culture was, for the first time, finding an identity in a post-war Britain.
Chapters include:
- The composer (music critics need not apply).
- Trots and trotting (Deli belly? Worse than that!).
- A wet lunch (bring your own blotting paper).
- Tickets, please! (I’m an apprentice, inspector – we’re exempt).
- A suspected criminal for a day (it wasn’t me guv’nor, honest).
- Soho! (The cultural quarter of London? Not then it wasn’t).
- Swearing (and other terms of endearment).
For this is,
A GUFFAW OF RIB-TICKLING TALES, ANECDOTES, AND STORIES THAT WILL GUARANTEE YOU SPLITTING YOUR SIDES WITH LAUGHTER!
And one, that will educate the reader in the finer points of robbing The London Underground blind, before getting caught.
What kind of reader would enjoy your book?
Not necessarily one that has an interest in the printing industry. Although they might have. No, it would be a person that has an interest in nostalgia for a world that is no longer there. Just a memory. A reader that enjoys humour, with hopefully, occasional overtones of thought provoking seriousness that will bring him or her away from the page for a moment to reflect. Bring a nod of affirmity, a tear to the eye perhaps, as they reflect on their own experiences of life and family.
Tabella dei contenuti
Prologue
1 – The Line is On
2 – The Composer
3 – The Reading Room
4 – Distributing
5 – Cleaners and Tea-Breaks
6 – The Binding Ceremony
7 – Print School
8 – Trots and Trotting
9 – Tickets Please!
10 – Soho
11 – A Wet Lunch
12 – Big Red
13 – Transport and Accidents Waiting to Happen
14 – The Beano
15 – Swearing and Other Terms of Endearment
16 – Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa
17 – A Suspected Criminal for a Day
18 – An Oasis in London
19 – Mumping: An Augment to Wages
20 – The Cat
21 – Times Up
22 – The Line is Cut
23 – The End of the Line
24 – Printing Trade Terms
Circa l’autore
Sex! Drugs! Rock and Roll! The ‘Sixties! With less money in my pocket than Shylock’s scullion, I could only read about it.
Born London. Comprehensive education. Served an apprenticeship as a compositor in the old printing district of London’s West End. Attended what is now the London College of Communication, then, the London College of Printing, Elephant and Castle. Studied ancient writing at Aldersgate & Barbican College where I soon found out that cuneiform what not the way forward in my career. Now living in Devon. Married with three children and two grandchildren.
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