The Rotters' Club

[blackpuddinonnabike]

This is about to be screened as a BBC2 adaptation - it's the first half of a story by Jonathon Coe, set during the 80s as Thatcher comes to power with a group of kids growing up.

It's dead good (though not as good as What a Carve Up!)

There's a review I wrote here (http://www.legalvillage.co.uk/rottersmain.html)

As well as a review by someone else of the follow-up here (http://www.legalvillage.co.uk/closedcircle.html)

And if you really want to relive the 80s, Mark Steel (he of BBC3 lectures fame) wrote a hilarious book.... And wouldn't you guess, it's reviewed here (http://www.legalvillage.co.uk/cheerfulmain.html)

:D

That should be enough for you to be reliving your childhood for the time being Annabel!

blackpud

[Annabel]

:D :D

They all sound right up my street (he he) BlackPud, and I will be looking on Amazon and in the library for them.

I really like books set in urban (esp london) backgrounds and in recent history that i can relate to.

thanks ever so much for that!!! :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs:

anymore suggestions???

[blackpuddinonnabike]

Let me see....

Toby Litt - deadkidsongs (quirky but very good style)
Tim Lott - Rumours of a Hurricane (80s setting - even has Maggie on the cover - with a marriage break-up as the background - bizarrely uplifting book I found)

The latest collection of Spike Milligan stuff is brilliant (if entirely different from the books already mentioned!)

Nick Hornby's High Fidelity is superb, but might be more of a bloke's book....

blackpud :book:

[blackpuddinonnabike]

Oooh! And!

Absolutely everyone MUST read The Underground Man by Mick Jackson! It's superb, my second favourite book of all time.

blackpud