Health and Wellbeing
Mark Hodkinson and Alastair McKay Books and Music Saved My Life
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- Tickets
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£11 (£10 ticket charge plus 10% booking fee)
- Dates and times
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Sunday 15th May 2022
3:00PM
- Age
- Adult, Over 14s only. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
- Venue
A lot of people will identify with these touching and entertaining memoirs.
Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. His dad kept it on top of a wardrobe with other items of great worth - wedding photographs and Mark's National Cycling Proficiency certificate.
Today, Mark is an author, journalist and publisher. He still lives in Rochdale,
but is now snugly ensconced (or is that buried?) in a 'book cave' surrounded by
3,500 titles - at the last count. No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy is
his story of growing up a working-class lad during the 1970s and 1980s. It's
about schools (bad), music (good) and the people (some mad, a few sane), and
pre-eminently and profoundly the books and authors (some bad, mostly good) that
led the way, and shaped his life. It's also about a family who just didn't see
the point of reading, and a troubled grandad who, in his own way, taught Mark
the power of stories.
Alastair McKay grew up in the fading Scottish
seaside town of North Berwick in the 70s. The cinema and outdoor swimming pool
were on the verge of closing, there were scary boys in the park, and excitement
was scarce.
An exceptionally shy boy, Alastair gradually found
his voice through the punk explosion: the ethos that 'anyone could do it'
prompted him to start writing, largely because it was easier than talking. He
also sang in a number of bands, one of which, The Commercials, made a record
that was tipped by Sounds magazine to be ‘big in 1982'. It wasn't.
From these hesitant beginnings, he would go on to a successful
career in journalism, and Alternatives to Valium: How Punk Rock Saved a Shy
Boy’s Life tells his life story. Chaired by David Robinson
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