James was brought up in Hove, Sussex, on the slopes of the South Downs, but with some of his childhood time spent in rural Huntingdonshire. From an early age he wrote fiction, including co-writing a well received comic pantomime for the local YMCA in his teens.
James is best known for his humorous novels. Especially his series of four volumes describing life in Peckham, South London, in the 1960s. The Peckham Novels are set in a factory, staffed by idiots and run by an incompetent boss, until the beautiful Tracey Mulligan takes a hand in its management.
They are quirky, comedic and highly improbable. One reviewer described them as ‘The Carry On’ team meet Tom Sharpe’.
Book 1 - Strudwick's Successor
Book 2 - Mulligan's Revenge
Book 3 - Paint the Town Red
Book 4 - Farewell to Peckham
Also set in the late sixties is The Parsonage Plots, another comedic novel set around a number of idiosyncratic allotment plot holders.
Set in Bournemouth in the 1960s, Percy’s Predicament tells the tale of lost love, and crime in the world of accountancy. But not everybody is what they claim to be, and bets on the colour of hippy’s nail varnish are an established office pastime.
Moving back in time to 1955, Publican’s Progress is a Wodehouse style humorous murder mystery set in rural Dorset. The main character is a young man who has always wanted to run a pub. But, like the wishes granted by fairies to greedy children, when he does get offered a tenancy he quickly finds that having your wish come true does not always end happily, and life can get very complicated. Then the body count starts to rise...
James’s humorous rural romantic two part novel, The Whitedown Chronicles, which is set in post-war Kent, describes an isolated community as it struggles to put tragedy behind it.
James is a member of a group of writers who collectively form the INCA Project. The project is a set of like-minded authors who aspire to meet a simple criterion as set down by the late Oscar Wilde, who said, and I paraphrase here, "There are no such things as bad books. They are well written or badly written, that is all."
The 1980s: truly a unique decade. Often remembered for its eclectic mix of massive perms, shoulder pads, spandex, mullets, legwarmers and all kinds of glorious and questionable fashion trends, a multicoloured kaleidoscope of innovation and influence; but it wasn't just extreme fashion that made the decade so special. It was a decade when everything in entertainment merged together, and it all flowed beautifully, through music. The 80s was a period when music, and the influence it had, was truly remarkable. It would be known as a golden age of music, a time when everyone brought something new and exciting to the table, a time when trends were no longer copied, they were set. It was the decade when music changed forever - there were changes in the way it was made, in how it was presented, and how it was performed. Alongside the wonderful voluminous hairstyles and smouldering stares, it was the decade when Pop Music was truly born. The new romantics, synthpop, hip hop, the power ballad and new wave all came together at the start of the decade and had long lasting influence. This was a time when technology was truly born within music and entertainment: the cassette tape, the Sony Walkman, the VCR and the compact disc; the introduction of satellite technology and the launch of MTV; and the arrival of the synthesiser and the drum machine, which enabled free flowing originality like never before. Never in the history of music and entertainment had everything come together so quickly and so perfectly to enable creativity, imagination and individuality. This book will take you back there. As well surveying all the trends of the decade, it includes an eyewitness account of the time from Richard James Burgess MBE, one of the originators of the new romantic movement, producer of acts such as Spandau Ballet, Adam Ant and Kim Wilde. The 80s - When Music Went Pop is a study of exactly why the 80s were so special, and why the decade is held is such esteem so many years later. It was a time like never before, and its influence and legacy live on to this very day. If you ever wondered why the 80s is constantly referred to as one of the greatest decades of all time, especially for music, then here it is. The 80s, when music went pop!
Título : The 80s: When Music Went Pop!
EAN : 9781949515404
Editorial : NewHavenPublishingLtd
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