Memoir
It’s The Beer Talking
Ian Claytons memoir on a life of adventures in public houses. ‘Brimming with laughter, tall stories, great memories and endless rounds of wonderful beer. It’s also a call to arms to save this unique institution.’ – Roger Protz, Editor Good Beer Guide 2000-2018
Thro My Eyes: A Memoir
Iain Matthews’s compelling memoir of a life on the road, in the studio and at home, through the eyes of one of our most enduring singer-songwriters. Choice of Paperback or Hardback Deluxe Edition complete with an accompanying double CDs.
You Can Drum But You Can’t Hide
Memoir from Manchester drummer Simon Wolstencroft, a musician who connects across all the iconic Manchester bands. ‘Wolstencroft’s book gives us a whole new perspective about Manchester’s music scene. A cracking read.’ — Louder Than War
The Big Midweek – Life Inside The Fall
The first insider’s account of life inside The Fall: unprecedented insight into the intense, highly-charged creative atmosphere within the most talked about band of the last 30 years. A Guardian Book of the Year 2014
Bringing It All Back Home
Heart warming, moving and laugh out loud funny, Bringing It All Back Home by Ian Clayton is the truest book you will ever read about music and the things that really matter.
‘One of the best books about popular music ever written.’ – Alan Lewis, Record Collector
Anne & Betty: United By The Struggle
Anne Scargill and Betty Cook’s memoir tells the story of two daughters, wives and mothers of the coalfields who rose to prominence in the 1984/85 miners’ strike as key members of the transformational Women Against Pit Closures movement.
Right Up Your Street
The Express Columns Volume One: a compendium of real stories drawn from the weekly columns Ian Clayton has written for his local paper, the Pontefract and Castleford Express.
Song For My Father
‘Song For My Father breaks your heart then puts it back together, often with the kindness of strangers. Clayton unearths the poetry of the everyday and his journey makes us re-evaluate our own. A rare thing, a book that makes us laugh, cry and question.’ – Alice Nutter
Nothing Ever Happens In Wentbridge
A true story from the emotional front line of a first love. This beautiful and vivid account of Mark and Janet, their lives, love and loss, shows how the mind has an uncanny ability to ignore what it doesn’t want to acknowledge. Until it has to.
Carpet Burns
Carpet Burns is Tom Hingley’s account of his life as lead singer of Inspiral Carpets. ‘This is a fascinating and unique book about a unique and fascinating life. Memoirs are made of this.’ – David Quantick