Axholme
Format:Paperback
Publisher:CB Editions
Published:11th Jun '26
Should be back in stock very soon
Mischief with air guns and catapults, stealing birds’ eggs and collecting butterflies, climbing through a window in the gents in the Rio to see the Saturday morning films for free, leg-crunching tackles in football games in muddy fields – these are the rites of passage of a group of kids growing up in a village in Lincolnshire in the 1950s. They are recreated in Axholme by Mike Bradwell in the voice of one of the gang, a voice that is funny, outrageous and true.
‘A wonderful, moving evocation of a vibrant community – funny, poignant, and above all, real.’ - Mike Leigh
‘A stunning carnival of compelling characters and story – hilarious, dark and evocative. I “Queen’s word” love Axholme.’ - Catherine Johnson
‘Mike Bradwell was a one-off personality and director – obstreperous, funny, dangerous. In this wholly unexpected book, he resurrects a youth in rural Lincolnshire that has unconscious echoes of J. D. Salinger, Laurie Lee, Dylan Thomas . . . It’s a cornucopia of vivid characters and idiomatic reportage. This will surely become one of the most renowned posthumous accounts of growing up in a close-knit but remote community. Loved every word.’ - Michael Coveney
ISBN: 9781739421205
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 9mm
Weight: unknown
118 pages