McGrath is a cool-eyed chronicler of a dispossessed generation - philosophical, astute and ultimately unforgiving. This is no pseudo rock'n'roll road trip, but an accessible and insightful study of the modern condition. The final autobiographical chapter is breathtaking."DEBORAH BOSLEY, 'Literary Review'"McGrath meets the nation's lost souls of the New Age. A 267-year-old princess from the tribe of Atlantis, a technoshaman, an alien who talks ...
Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown for 2018. G. Kelly's Pie and Mash on the Roman Road has been an East End institution for nearly a century. The story of the shop and of the lives that have passed through it encompasses subjects diverse as women's liberation, immigration and industrialisation in a book that will appeal to the large audience for East End memoirs.
This is the story of the Roman Road, an East End pie and mash shop and the lives, loves and losses of the people who have worked and eaten there. G Kelly's Pie and Mash has been run by the same family in the Roman Road in Bow for nearly a hundred years, an East End institution and the still point of a turning world. Outside its windows the Roman Road has seen an extraordinary revolution - from women's liberation and industrialisation to wars a...