devilgate | Tears and Laugher in the Bookshop

I knew I would buy it, of course. I just didn't necessarily know I would buy it today. But I popped into Waterstone's at lunchtime, and had a look at Margrave of the Marshes, John Peel's autobiography. It was posthumously completed by his wife, Sheila (once better known as "The Pig", fact fans) and their (grown-up) kids.

Even reading the acknowledgements was curiously moving, listing as it did the likes of Billy Bragg, Andy Kershaw and Tom Robinson. So I read the introduction, which was written by the four kids. I found myself laughing and my eyes filling with tears just from those three or four pages. So obviously I had to buy it.

I'm now thoroughly looking forward to tomorrow's Home Truths, which is a special edition featuring Sheila.

I also seem to have bought Singularity Sky, but I've been meaning to get that for ages.

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Oooh, please do continue to report back on that! I would like to buy a biography of John Peel but I don't want to buy a cash-in rip-off one. This one sounds like the one to go for.

Yeah, there were two cash-ins out before Christmas last year. Bastards. Though when I was looking for links for the above, I saw something that seemed to be saying that one of them had been pulped because of libel fears (threat of action from a third party, I think it said).

That's good news.

BTW, your Home Truths link isn't working.

Thanks. It looks like I had pasted the URL twice. Fixed now.

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