Luke R Francis

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‘April Ashley was born, aged twenty-five, on 12 May 1960. It was a difficult birth at the Clinique du Parc on rue Lapébie, a back street running parallel to the admired avenue d’Amade in Casablanca, on a day when the Moroccan sunshine was behaving the...

Playing the Pools

Playing the Pools

Roddy Doyle meets The Full Monty in a story of hopes, dreams, love and betrayal - and the football pools.In 1960s Liverpool, life is hard for Reggie Kellison. His marriage is stalling, baby number six is on its way, a fall out at work has put his nose...

Shake It Up, Baby

Shake It Up, Baby

It's 1963. The year of the Profumo scandal, the Great Train Robbery, the rise of teenage consumerism and sexual emancipation, and Kennedy's assassination . . . and the birth of Beatlemania. In the beginning, The Beatles were a band of brothers who...

Happily married and running a successful business, Peter Berry's life changed when, at the age of 50, he was given a terminal diagnosis of early-onset dementia. Since that day, he has learned to live with his very own 'dementia monster'. From...

The Boy Who Sat By the Window

The Boy Who Sat By the Window

'Enjoy this story. I already jumped to the parts about me.' - Boy GeorgeThe extraordinary life story of David Hodge – the ‘Very Miss Dusty O’.-'My story is one of laughter and hedonism, dressing up and showing off. I played Queen in a parallel...