What would it be like to live in world without inflation? Strangely enough, the riders who have competed in the Grand Prix series know this feeling well. They’ll know this again this year as the 2008 Grand Prix series starts tomorrow in Slovenia with exactly the same prize money on offer as in 2005!...
31st March Sky Sports choose to send their cameras to Brandon for the Coventry versus Eastbourne to open another season of live televised speedway coverage. I don’t know what package everyone else subscribes to but mine costs £35 per month and you have to ask does this represent good value or guaranteed entertainment? For...
…then you might also enjoy my latest photo book Banter & Bustle The Big Issue ,the Daily Telegraph, the Sunderland Echo, salut! Sunderland all liked it! They said: “The ritualistic walk to and from the football ground is the subject of this quirky book of photographs. Filled with mundane images of the back end...
An almost immutable law of the Rupert Murdoch Empire is that one part of his media kingdom will invariably but spontaneously chose to promote the products of another, particularly if they hold exclusive rights. For example, it’s not unusual to find The Times, The Sun or the Sunday Times using the Sky Sports invented...
Robert Bamford’s Yearbook remains an essential purchase..every conceivable fact and figure is coveredAllan Melville, Speedway Plus 14/02/08 The 2008 edition of the Speedway Yearbook has been given a welcome makeover…it’s a good move as the dull-as-ditchwater presentation has been beefed up into an attractive packagePeter Oakes, Speedway Star 16/02/08
26th January I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from the Eastbourne fans forum in the bar at Arlington Stadium on a January winter’s night. I knew that the new promotional team of Bob Dugard and Martin Hagon would be present along with the key post-season signings – the diminutive Lee Richardson and the...
Methanol Press SPEEDWAY YEARBOOK 2008 Edited by Robert Bamford £14.99 272 pages Paperback Just Published The indispensable companion for the 2008 season for speedway fans everywhere – edited by respected speedway author and historian, Robert Bamford. The Speedway Yearbook provides the definitive guide to and last word on everything you’ll need to know to...
It is not an easy leap from Italian football to British speedway, but it has to be made to pay appropriate attention to Shale Britannia: A Sideways Glance at Speedway (Methanol Press, £15). The title barely does the work justice, for it is not so much a glance as a full-on stare. It is...
The F.I.M. has just published the official attendance figures for the 2007 Grand Prix Series. Total attendances improved by 2.3% overall from 147,392 to 150,913 though because many of the attendances have weirdly symmetrical numbers you have to assume that these are ‘rounded’ figures not specific ones. I gather that these figures refer to...
“The book is a big read giving an insight into another angle on speedway in the UK. Shifting Shale is an amusing Bill Brysonesque view of the tracks and the tracks which we don’t really get from other writers. Jeff clearly loves his speedway and the people that are so much part of the...
£9.99 (plus postage)in book form though, for the technologically gifted, £7.50 as a download243 pages400 photographsWonderful insightAbsolutely nothing else like it on the market Click here to buy it The introduction reads like this: Tina Turner famously asked “what’s love got to do with it?” Now that you have this book in your hands...
“If the smell of methanol wafting up West Street doesn’t get you longing for summer, Jeff Scott will… Jeff tracks the 2006 season, helped by a few Sports Argus posters. The use of key quotes adds a nice touch. You’ll read the quotes first, then get wrapped up in about 350 pages...
You may have rushed to the phone (or onto the internet) to take advantage of the widely advertised “UP TO 10% OFF TICKETS PURCHASED BEFORE 31.12.O7” special offer for the 2008 Cardiff Grand Prix. This opportunity drew itself to my attention through an insert in this week’s Speedway Star that reinforced the screechy back...
With the annual BSPA conference only days away, the collective anticipation of the speedway world in Britain is almost breathless and enlivened by a variety of rumours circulating from sources apparently ‘in the know’. Interest outside the rarefied world of speedway remains constant at zero. The consensus is that something has to be done...
The annual BSPA conference is nearly upon us and, as is traditional before the tablets are brought down from the mountain to explain the latest configuration or colouring of next season’s deckchairs, various interested parties are getting their retaliation in first while pretending to put forward helpful suggestions. Because of the wide acknowledgement that...
Bibliophiles Corner – Sue Jackson-Scott Shale Britannia – Jeff Scott published by Methanol Press £15, ISBN 978-0955310324. As Jeff was disappointed by the Voice printing his own press release on this publication, I shall give in and tell him, and all other members, my impressions of his book.Don’t show Shale Britannia to anyone who...
13th October Downtown Gelsenkirchen isn’t the first place that you’d choose for a weekend break as, even in the sunshine, it has more of the feel of Basingstoke town centre than any self-respecting holiday resort. Tonight will be the first ever Grand Prix staged in Germany, the eleventh of the season and the 100th...
Where would we be without Sky coverage of speedway? I think we all know the answer to that. We’d certainly miss regular televised race action and (mostly) slick presentation. We’d also be deprived of one the joys of their regular coverage – the repetitive exaggerated Skyballs TM language used and the spectacular level of...
Speedway doyen with 58 years experience of the sport has again kindly mentioned my work in his Berwick programme notes of September 8th:- Now, you might recall I mentioned speedway author Jeff Scott on this page last week, and told you he’d be here next Saturday, signing copies of his books “Shale Britannia” and...
30th August The advent of the Super Seven series format in 2007has reinvigorated many of the events that have beenincluded under its umbrella. The super7 concept is thebrainchild of the King’s Lynn co-promoter JonathanChapman whose name, whenever it appears in thespeedway press, invariably has epithets like‘ambitious’, ‘dynamic’ or ‘young’ appear in the samesentence. Whatever...
BELIEVE it or not: prolific author Jeff Scott has a day job….The long-time fan, who has just added two new titles to his growing speedway catalogue, spends his working life publicising other people’s books.And his own spare time touring the tracks and flogging his own works of art!This week he’ll be lugging boxes around...
SPEEDWAY. It’s all about four blokes on motorbikes turning left, right?Wrong? Not in Jeff Scott’s world, anyway – and it’s a world I’m quite happy to inhabit myself. Author, photographer and shalesport obsessive, Jeff has been a regular face at tracks up and down the country since embarking on his Showered in Shale project,...
Rumours in the Speedway Star claim that a three-league structure for next year could be dictated by attendance figures. It has been mooted that there would be nine teams in each league those withAttendances greater than 1000Attendances greater than 750Attendances greater than 500 It’s a plan that raises more questions than it answers, particularly...
‘SHIFTING SHALE’Author: Jeff Scott (£20, softback).Available at the website www.methanolpress.com or send £24 cheque to coverP&P made payable to “J.Scott” at Methanol Press, 2 Tidy Street, BrightonBN1 4EL. THIS latest book from prolific speedway author Jeff Scott is as quirky and as delightful as his previous mega-offering ‘Showered in Shale’. It covers some more...
13th July 2007 ‘Shale Britannia’ – A Sideways Glance at Speedway’Author: Jeff Scott The book contains 245 colour photos taken at every track during 2005 and 2006. That allows the now-closed Wimbledon club to be featured. It has four photos – the outside of the stadium before a meeting (page 55), the empty entrance...
Book Review: Shifting ShaleShifting ShaleBy Jeff Scott£20, in softback Regular visitors to the site will hopefully be familiar with the work of author and speedway obsessive Jeff Scott. We’ve featured excerpts from his work and tried to somehow help him minimise the losses his publications always seem destined to make. He’s just published his...
A selection of photographs from ‘Shale Britannia’ appears in this week’s ‘Big Issue’ on page 25 I buy a copy every week anyway and would encourage everyone to do so. If you only want to buy this one it’s the one with a rather fetching picture of Natasha Beddingfield on the front (issue number...
12th June It’s a Tuesday night and, most unusually, the Sky cameras have deigned to feature a Premier League encounter – probably the sort of meeting we’ll see them televise a lot more next season. When you listen to Jonathan talk about racing at this level, it’s clear that he sees such trips as...
Renowned speedway author Jeff Scott, of ‘Showered in Shale’ fame has published his third book through Methanol Press. The new book entitled ‘Shale Britannia – A Sideways Glance at Speedway’ comes in the guise of a picture book this time around. But fear not as just like Scott’s previous work this is no normal...
April 2nd “I think it’s going to be a bit of a tall order for him” Nigel Pearson “He doesn’t really have the starting skills” Sam Ermolenko April 23rd “He really is an exciting rider with lots of potential – I’m keeping my fingers crossed” Kelvin Tatum “I feel personally it may be a...
This is my follow up book to ‘Showered in Shale’ – it’s similar but different! Shifting Shale: 2006 A Race Odyssey Paperback 354 pages 143 Black & white thumbnail photographs £20.00 “It’s a dafter, funnier, darker and deeper ‘must have’ companion to ‘Showered In Shale’ BILLY JENKINS Like the modern-day gladiators of motorcycle speedway,...
11th June Even an Elite League encounter between two of the current top teams can’t be introduced without some prior reference to the GP series or the Cardiff Grand Prix on any Sky broadcast. Jonathan notes with rapier like acuity, “it’s looking good for Cardiff for the overall GP” which I translate to mean...
11th June When I arrive early at Monmore Green Stadium, the Dave Rattenberry track shop stall is already erected and almost completely stocked, despite the fact that there are nearly four hours before the tapes rise. As usual, Dave is there along with John Rich – who I immediately apologise to since he’s regrettably...
10th June It’s already a warm day when I arrive at Sittingbourne though it’s still only mid-morning. One of the first people to greet me is Chelsea Lee-Amies who tells me rather proudly that she “got here at half eight with my dad to help with the track”. Her father Stuart (aka ‘Rat’) is...
9th June Having worked in Harlow, it’s always an embarrassment not to be able to find a short cut through the town to the toll bridge by the sewage works that leads to the speedway stadium in Hoddesdon. This time I even managed to go past the rather posh Harlow greyhound stadium, the football...
After mature consideration by the judges, the winning entry was submitted by Chris MacDonald. I’d like to thank everyone who entered and I apologise for taking so long to announce Chris as the winner and to publish the other entertaining entries. Limerick Competition Winner: There was a Team Manager called Lynch,Who thought winning the...
Brian Owen, Argus, 13th June 2007 Speedway author and Eastbourne Eagles fan Jeff Scott has not just gone on a different racing line with his latest book. He has perfomed a publishing equivalent of turning his bike around and doing four laps in a clockwise direction. Brighton-based Scott has followed up two in-depth looks...
7th June Though I only called at late notice, Wayne Russell (son of Terry) was kind enough to let me launch my new book of photographs – Shale Britannia – at Blunsdon. “We’re only too pleased to have you – you’re welcome anytime,” he tells me inside the speedway office just inside the entrance...
Wolverhampton Express & Star11th June 2007 reviewer: Tim Hamblin “Hymn of praise to track stalwarts” If speedway is a religion, it’s one thought to be attracting an ever dwindling congregation to some frankly shabby places of worship. But “Shale Britannia”, the latest book from author Jeff Scott, is a tribute to the unsung fans...
Almost as soon as the book had rolled off the presses, those folks at the great speedwayplus website once again showed they had their fingers on the pulse of all things speedway by immediately reviewing it. to read the review or bathe in the full glory of this site click here
4th June Sky present speedway programmes never known to stint on the use of hyperbole. For the staging of the British Final at Wolverhampton, they really excelled themselves with the introductory strap line (intoned over action images of speedway riders), “tonight will be the biggest night ever for one of these!” Once we arrive...
30th May Though there’s a slight chance of rain, the speedway dream team keep meteorological discussions to a bare minimum this week before they launch into an excitable discussion of what Belle Vue should consider doing. Jonathan and Kelvin are self-referential from the off with what they think, what they say and how to...
21st May The pre-credits strap line for this meeting was billed as “a night fuelled on pure adrenalin”. This, you have to assume, would refer to the action on the track rather than in the interview booth with Jonathan and Kelvin. Part psychic, part sniffer dog Jonathan looks at the crowd and twitches with...
14th May According to Jonathan, just like the hyperbole, absolutely everything is “huge” this week – we join the “huge crowd as always” at Monmore Green to apparently find “British speedway on a huge high” inspired by Chris ‘Bomber’ Harris. Kelvin is now of the opinion, “he’s young he’s got his future ahead of...
7th May I had to tape this meeting as I actually went to Smallmead and, because I spent some time in the pits also, I had the ideal chance to compare the ‘live experience’ to the ‘televised experience’. I’m not exactly sure what was going on with the transmission in my area but, sadly,...
From BSPA website – Fours Update Friday 11 May 2007 Unfortunately, fairground rides for the children have had to be cancelled but late plans are in place for face painting and entertainment. Wonderful!
30th April It’s a sunny night in Swindon and the Sky Sports camera pans across Blunsdon Stadium to reveal packed terraces. Once again this week, Jonathan Green explains why the presence of the cameras hasn’t – as is traditional – decimated the audience, “they’ve brought in the crowd with special deals”. It’s not exactly...
28th April A post about this event appears on the Eagles website.
23rd April Another week, another meeting and all the usual topics of conversation are back – the weather, the track, the so-called “great atmosphere”, the “exciting” meeting in prospect that “both teams want to win” and the recent topical favourite, the so-called iniquity of the 2007 changes to the tactical replacement rule – for...
16th April The new era at Arena Essex has seen the club name change to the Lakeside Hammers and for the first visit of the Sky Sports cameras the new promotion at the club have taken the innovative step of offering completely free admission to the meeting. It’s a decision that has rightfully garnered...
9th April Another week, another Sky Sports live broadcast where the rhetoric outruns the reality of what’s on display. The presenters are impressed to be at Monmore Green for the first time this season. Kelvin luxuriates in the “triffic atmosphere in the stadium” and Jonathan is chuffed with the “fantastic crowd” huddled together in...
The first leg of the double header Easter Sunday meeting between Reading and Swindon is enticing enough to attract a good sized crowd to Smallmead. The number of spectators through the turnstiles has been swelled by a good sized contingent of Swindon fans who gather on the third bend, which allows the keener ones...
2nd April The latest televised broadcast from the speedway lovers at Sky Sports was mostly notable for its absences. New presenter Abi was very obviously missing from Sandy Lane – hopefully only for a further visit to the famed Sky presenter’s finishing school – as were any banal or meaningful interviews conducted in the...
Rumours have reached a crescendo that the relentless campaign to find a new home for speedway within the capital has identified a couple of exciting new possible stadium targets! A mystery man close to the search project, a Mr. D. Byrne said, “we are actively considering Upton Park because in recent years work has...
26th March The perils of live broadcasts are such that as soon as you’d uttered an authoritative prognostication on what has happened or what is about to happen, the evidence of the eyes of the armchair audience completely contradicts your claims. The latest Sky Sports live speedway broadcast of Belle Vue versus Poole provides...
After their winter break Speedway returned to Sky Sports and treated us to a double dose on successive nights of the latest Panthers versus Racerdogs encounter. They say lightening doesn’t strike twice and these programmes were living proof of that adage though they did give absolutely everyone the chance to repeatedly demonstrate their meteorological...
My first official meeting as Writer in Residence at Eastbourne Speedway started with his drama with a confrontation between Nicki Pedersen and Craig Boyce. To read my account of this and my other blogs click here I was also fortunate to be interviewed as part of the Eagles press and practice day.
I have had a long-standing invitation from Graham Cooke to come along and help the Swindon Robins track team with their winter work on the Blunsdon track. When he said “fencing” I imagined that I might have to buy an epee or foil specially or even perhaps help with some stolen goods but apparently...
A fun chance to win a signed copy of one of my Methanol Press books by submitting a speedway limerick. Please email your Speedway Limerick using the ‘Email the author’ link at the bottem of my website home page (put “Speedway Limerick” in the subject heading and include your postal address, phone number. Please...
I can wait for the season to start and will now be writing two blogs next season. I’m delighted that Bob Brimson has invited me to be Writer in Residence for the Eastbourne Eagles.He has kindly given me permission to write whatever I want in the style of my usual work, albeit with a...
When Eagles Dared – by Jeff Scott. First I should say that I haven’t had time to read this entire book but I shall certainly finish it. This is a much more relaxed effort than Jeff’s first offering, Showered in Shale. His real love of Speedway and the Eastbourne Eagles in particular, and his...
In this week’s Speedway Star the always-engaging Peterborough and Rye House presenter Craig Saul makes an interesting philosophical observation when he deliberately classifies speedway as “sports entertainment” The exact quote reads as follows:“What we – at least claim we – are promoting in 2007 is ‘sports entertainment’, rather than pure sport, but you must...
February 11th Telford* World IceFebruary 18th High Beech * My signed books will be on the always enthralling Enjay stall (also packed with other speedway merchandise) run by Nick and Johnny Barber as well as on the excellent stall run by the avunuclar Dave Rattenberry
Just like speedway is mostly ignored in the national print and broadcast media, so it has been with Internet search engines. If I type the title of my book Showered in Shale into google (as I do when vanity overcomes me and I have the odd idle minute), its not long before I’m lost...
“Jeff Scott, an avid and enthusiastic if not slightly eccentric speedway fan has written the book to fill those long winter evenings… is a witty and articulate writer and in Worldspeedway.com’s opinion the book itself is probably the best speedway book written to date. Cleverly written, Scott not only tells his story of the...
Inevitably as soon as Tim Stone, the promoter of the Newport New Year Classic, spoke in congratulatory fashion to the Speedway Star about the fact that this winter speedway event could and had run in all weathers, he was bound to irk the speedway weather gods. In other years whether the wintry conditions ranged...
“There is something special about a long sultry night of racing at Arlington Stadium. Prolific speedway writer Jeff Scott has managed to capture that, and the less memorable meetings as well, in his latest book… from down there amid the programme boards and baseball caps on the terraces as he brings us the characters,...
If you haven’t already clicked on this link on this page then please do so immediately if you want an authentic insight into the trials and tribulations of track preparation. It really is quite something as the dedication, obsessiveness, skill and humour of the characters (including ‘Punch’ and Gerard Richter among a cast of...
Picking over the Eagles’ bones RARELY – if ever – can a club’s speedway season have been so picked over as the Eastbourne Eagles’ 2005 campaign.It’s been given the Jeff Scott treatment – the Brighton-based author and self-confessed speedway nut who earlier this year gave us Showered in Shale.That mammoth tome was a trip...
“ Jeff Scott’s riveting personalised account of Eastbourne’s 2005 campaign….it’s a companion to Jeff’s better known book ‘Showered in Shale’….some of the material may be a little dated now but it is still a remarkable read and something completely different to any other books on the overcrowded market. Jeff has a...
While the world of public pronouncements gets blander and blander when it comes to saying something controversial, having a strong opinion or uttering something that will even vaguely offend, you could be forgiven for thinking that many people apparently prefer moderation and weasel words to honesty. Even contemporary British speedway has started to become...
Speedway fan Rob Griffin kindly contacted me about an article that he was doing on the phenomenon of blogging for the Independent newspaper. Having read the article it seems that I’m missing a few tricks when it comes to making money from this activity. It would be great to figure out who on earth...
It seems Jeff Scott’s behind-the-scenes look at the 2005 British speedway season has caught the public’s imagination. Now on it’s second print run, the 500-page softback publication vividly captures speedway, once one of this counties’ most popular sports, at a crossroads.As Scott writes: “Speedway strikes me as the complete opposite of the contrived experiences...
SORRY! This page has been removed… A fully revised and updated version of this blog entry now appears in my new paperback book Shifting Shale (Methanol Press £20) published in June 2007. All my blog entries from 2006 are included in this book along with many other accounts from my travels that I withheld...
SORRY! This page has been removed… A fully revised and updated version of this blog entry now appears in my new paperback book Shifting Shale (Methanol Press £20) published in June 2007. All my blog entries from 2006 are included in this book along with many other accounts from my travels that I withheld...
SORRY! This page has been removed… A fully revised and updated version of this blog entry now appears in my new paperback book Shifting Shale (Methanol Press £20) published in June 2007. All my blog entries from 2006 are included in this book along with many other accounts from my travels that I withheld...
SORRY! This page has been removed… A fully revised and updated version of this blog entry now appears in my new paperback book Shifting Shale (Methanol Press £20) published in June 2007. All my blog entries from 2006 are included in this book along with many other accounts from my travels that I withheld...
Moments ago my book When Eagles Dared reached number 659,689 in the Amazon.co.uk rankings This definitely makes it a record breaking book! (albeit of the wrong type) And Martin Dadswell was right I think I might blame my ponderous and prententious writing style
SORRY! This page has been removed… A fully revised and updated version of this blog entry now appears in my new paperback book Shifting Shale (Methanol Press £20) published in June 2007. All my blog entries from 2006 are included in this book along with many other accounts from my travels that I withheld...
SORRY! This page has been removed… A fully revised and updated version of this blog entry now appears in my new paperback book Shifting Shale (Methanol Press £20) published in June 2007. All my blog entries from 2006 are included in this book along with many other accounts from my travels that I withheld...
SORRY! This page has been removed… A fully revised and updated version of this blog entry now appears in my new paperback book Shifting Shale (Methanol Press £20) published in June 2007. All my blog entries from 2006 are included in this book along with many other accounts from my travels that I withheld...
“I found this book difficult to enjoy properly on three counts; the terrible type face chosen, far too many footnotes (on average more than one per page) and Jeff’s rather pretentious and ponderous writing style. Speedway is a rather basic sport and comes across better when described in words of fewer syllables…This review may...
You can now buy ‘Showered in Shale’ (or ‘When Eagles Dared’) Postage Free! I think it’s always best to support your local bookshop or trackshop wherever possible… However, now that the season is over and the trackshops are shuttered for the close season, you may like to consider ordering any copies you need of...
SORRY! This page has been removed… A fully revised and updated version of this blog entry now appears in my new paperback book Shifting Shale (Methanol Press £20) published in June 2007. All my blog entries from 2006 are included in this book along with many other accounts from my travels that I withheld...
SORRY! This page has been removed… A fully revised and updated version of this blog entry now appears in my new paperback book Shifting Shale (Methanol Press £20) published in June 2007. All my blog entries from 2006 are included in this book along with many other accounts from my travels that I withheld...
SORRY! This page has been removed… A fully revised and updated version of this blog entry now appears in my new paperback book Shifting Shale (Methanol Press £20) published in June 2007. All my blog entries from 2006 are included in this book along with many other accounts from my travels that I withheld...
September 25th My journey from Sheffield to Reading goes surprisingly smoothly and as a result I find myself in the area horrendously early, so I sample the delights of the nearby M4 service station and then head to the car park. I have arranged to arrive early as the friendly and efficient Torben Olsen...
SORRY! This page has been removed… A fully revised and updated version of this blog entry now appears in my new paperback book Shifting Shale (Methanol Press £20) published in June 2007. All my blog entries from 2006 are included in this book along with many other accounts from my travels that I withheld...
SORRY! This page has been removed… A fully revised and updated version of this blog entry now appears in my new paperback book Shifting Shale (Methanol Press £20) published in June 2007. All my blog entries from 2006 are included in this book along with many other accounts from my travels that I withheld...
A Whimsical Account from the terraces behind Board 51 (and lurking at tracks elsewhere) of a Triumphant Eastbourne Speedway season with ultimate success missed by a merest Cat’s Whisker that features those handlebar heroes: Nicki, Floppy, Mooro, Deano, Watty, Shieldsy plus bosses, Cooky and Geery, and a vital yet innumerable cast of others –...
SORRY! This page has been removed… A fully revised and updated version of this blog entry now appears in my new paperback book Shifting Shale (Methanol Press £20) published in June 2007. All my blog entries from 2006 are included in this book along with many other accounts from my travels that I withheld...
SORRY! This page has been removed… A fully revised and updated version of this blog entry now appears in my new paperback book Shifting Shale (Methanol Press £20) published in June 2007. All my blog entries from 2006 are included in this book along with many other accounts from my travels that I withheld...
SORRY! This page has been removed… A fully revised and updated version of this blog entry now appears in my new paperback book Shifting Shale (Methanol Press £20) published in June 2007. All my blog entries from 2006 are included in this book along with many other accounts from my travels that I withheld...
Speed thrills with handlebar Hans and leathered LarsFrom Peterborough to Poole, an obsessive hardcore follows the mud thrown bySwedes, Poles, Danes and Brits as they ride round in circles. Frank KeatingThe Guardian, October 3, 2006 Fasten your earmuffs. Speedway is screeching down to the wire. Last night,at Reading, the first leg of the 2006...
SORRY! This page has been removed… A fully revised and updated version of this blog entry now appears in my new paperback book Shifting Shale (Methanol Press £20) published in June 2007. All my blog entries from 2006 are included in this book along with many other accounts from my travels that I withheld...
SORRY! This page has been removed… A fully revised and updated version of this blog entry now appears in my new paperback book Shifting Shale (Methanol Press £20) published in June 2007. All my blog entries from 2006 are included in this book along with many other accounts from my travels that I withheld...
SORRY! This page has been removed… A fully revised and updated version of this blog entry now appears in my new paperback book Shifting Shale (Methanol Press £20) published in June 2007. All my blog entries from 2006 are included in this book along with many other accounts from my travels that I withheld...
SORRY! This page has been removed… A fully revised and updated version of this blog entry now appears in my new paperback book Shifting Shale (Methanol Press £20) published in June 2007. All my blog entries from 2006 are included in this book along with many other accounts from my travels that I withheld...
Last page of the Peterborough programme for the important televised meeting with Swindon featured the most scholarly review of my book so far by Derek ‘Professor’ Barclay. He has kindly sent me the text of his review though this means disappointing that you can’t see the picture of him that adorns the column –...