Littlejohns Lost World by Richard Littlejohn
Like New condition second hand copy for £5.00, sold by For the love of books on ReReadz.
- Author
- Richard Littlejohn
- Price
- £5.00 plus tracked UK delivery from £2.99
- Condition
- Like New
- Format
- Hardcover
- Published
- 2014
- ISBN
- 9780091944001
- Sold by
- For the love of books
About this copy
Born in Ilford, Essex in 1954, Richard Littlejohn grew up in an era where wartime rationing was still a recent memory, and children ran free and wild outdoors. In this captivating memoir, he goes in search of his old childhood haunts, only to find an England changed beyond recognition. The book traces a poignant, warm, and funny journey comparing the fifties and sixties to modern Britain: • The Past: A world of playing in cornfields, building sites, and air-raid shelters with no suffocating "elf 'n' safety" culture, no computer games, and no internet. It was a time of Saturday morning pictures, Muffin the Mule, beef dripping, and listening to Radio Luxembourg under the bedclothes. • The Present: A modern landscape where his old covered market has been replaced by a 30-storey Dubai-style tower block, his old primary school pupils speak dozens of different languages, and his former grammar school has been entirely demolished. Ultimately, the book serves as a nostalgic look at a vanished era, recreating a vividly detailed slice of 20th-century British life for millions of readers who feel that world has been lost forever.
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