The Undisputed King of Selston

If I had to wake up, I hoped that I would wake up on another day. In another place. Danny Scott grew up in Selston, a mining village that''s only ten miles as the crow flies from Derby and about the same from Nottingham . . . but which might as well be a thousand miles away from either. There''s no more to it than a row of shops, a church, a school, an excess of pubs and a working men''s club. Oh, and six different working collieries. It''s a hard place, inhabited by hard people with hard lives. Home is a Pit house caging an almost silent father and a mother who is quite the opposite - clomping and shouting around a darkened cottage, the lights rarely switched on. So, Danny''s life is lived elsewhere, outside on the clay heaps and spoils, the reservoir and the scraps of wasteland, deep in the hedgerows and down the lanes, and most importantly in his dreams where he can fly free above the borders of his home. Funny, shocking, sad but joyous, Green, Grey, Red, Black is a book of real heart and quiet power that will surprise and appal you, but also leave you lifted-up.

Product details

• Authors: Danny Scott, Scott Danny
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.06.2025
• EAN: 9781399816793
• ISBN: 978-1-399-81679-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 218 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Nottinghamshire, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mining, Memoirs, c 1970 to c 1979, Mining technology & engineering, Mining technology and engineering, Extractive industries, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs