My name is Gil Jackson and I was born and raised in London. The one L in Gil makes me a man. My approach to writing is thought intensive, typing fast, then drafting long and hard. I write time travel alternative history, science fiction, and suspense novels, all of which are designed such that the reader will hopefully think deeper long after the book has been read.
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:
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.
READER REVIEWS
A must read for all
Great read couldn't put it down, lots of laughs.
A fascinating look back at the sixties in London
A fascinating look back at the sixties in London and into the printing industry. I'm a little younger than Gil, not working in London until the Seventies, but many things were still the same then.
NB: The author does not subscribe to 'paid for' reviews.
Título : The London Apprentice
EAN : 9781838232641
Editorial : Hiram B. Good
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