London Apprentice (eBook)

Gil Jackson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
9781838232641 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.10.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Schlagworte: Apprentices • autobiographies • Biographies • biographies and autobiographies • Biographies and Memoirs • biographies that are funny • books of biographies • London • N
• ISBN-13: 9781838232641 / 9781838232641