{"product_id":"bloomsbury-boy-9781784634384","title":"Bloomsbury Boy","description":"\u003ch3\u003eSynopsis\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eThe lost London of a Bloomsbury boyhood, in six unforgettable decades.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"drop-cap\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"drop-cap-opener\"\u003eMartin Chilton was\u003c\/span\u003e born in 1964, in a flat opposite Great Ormond Street Hospital, in the heart of literary Bloomsbury. His father was a Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter who played with George Melly; his mother ran the legendary Bloomsbury Bookshop. In Bloomsbury Boy, Chilton recalls a now-vanished London – of Italian mobsters, Sabini razors and Gamages at Christmas – then ranges across six decades and seven worlds: books, music, journalism, education, football and the NHS. By turns hilarious and elegiac, this is the warm, sharp-eyed memoir of a true Londoner, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what has been lost – and gained – along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Martin Chilton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":56268847841659,"sku":"9781784634384","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0851\/7222\/files\/9781784634384.jpg?v=1779816512","url":"https:\/\/www.saltpublishing.com\/products\/bloomsbury-boy-9781784634384","provider":"Salt","version":"1.0","type":"link"}