My Old Man: A Personal History of Music HallShortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hall. Music hall was one of the glories of Victorian England. Sentimental, vulgar, but patriotic and champion of the underdog, it held a mirror to the audiences hopes, fears and the general absurdity of life. Vast, smoke filled auditoriums were packed every

atmospheric debut from the author of The Death of Jane Lawrence

The result is this pulse-pounding page-turner that vividly recreates this extraordinary event in all its intensity—and documents the ingenuity and sacrifice it took to succeed

On the 14th November 1940

When her longtime friend Cassandra

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