Category Archives: Book Review

If you search for Hells Angels fiction on Amazon’s Kindle, once you discard the ones about angels and demons you’ll get page after page of romance titles featuring a hairy biker and his massive chopper next to some skinny bird … Continue reading →

                    If you are looking for another po-faced history of 1970s UK punk, this isn’t for you. It’s a humorous fictionalised version of that time, the central premise being that the … Continue reading →

This is another punk book set in a different country, this one being New Zealand during South   Africa’s Springbok rugby tour there in 1981. It’s told (mostly) in first person present tense by a young punk who forms a … Continue reading →

I must be going soft in my old age, but I really liked this book. I first read it when it was a blog serial, and sad bastard that I am each new episode quickly became the highlight of my … Continue reading →

Another mod book. I seem to be reading a lot of those lately. This one is about a part-time mod just as he is drifting away from the scene and turning into a trendy. Why he wants to be a … Continue reading →

A bit different this one, in that it’s told primarily from the perspective of a victim of hooliganism rather than the protagonists. The victim himself is a bit of a middle class twonk, but the writer does a good job … Continue reading →

Don’t let the title of this book put you off reading it because it’s got fuck all to do with mods whatsoever. It’s more of an epilogue to the Joe Hawkins Skinhead books than anything else. It’s actually not too bad, … Continue reading →