Love and taxes by the former city of Birmingham poet laureate, Adrian Johnson
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‘Love and taxes’ the powerful first novel by Adrian Johnson – the city of Birmingham’s former poet laureate.
first published in 2010. Read all about how the people felled a political giant in the 25th anniversary year of popular resistance.
Fiction: paperback original, 216pp, £9.99 + £2 P+P ISBN: 978-0-9565957-0-6
Read about on AMAZON (but alas they don't stock it!!!!): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Taxes-Jack-Sandra-Polltax/dp/0956595707/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283324614&sr=1-1
“Adrian’s stories powerfully explore and dramatise the lives of the millions who campaigned against the poll tax.”
Tony Benn, former Labour minister
“Adrian Johnson’s work shines a much needed light on the Poll Tax debacle: a piece of history that should not be forgotten.”
Jonathan Davidson – director, the Birmingham book festival.
Adrian Johnson was the city of Birmingham’s 14th Poet Laureate, writer and storyteller He lives in Smethwick, Sandwell and works across the West Midlands with stories for adults and family groups that spring out of the very earth and heart of the middle lands that he has always lived in.
Adrian’s first novel, ‘Love and taxes’ is a pulsating story of love and struggle recalled by Jack Jameson, a naïve, young man that teams up with two idealists, Sandra and Pete, to speak up and protest the hugely unpopular poll tax in the world cup football year of 1990 - a period which saw the Berlin wall collapse, Nelson Mandela walk free, protest by Chinese students in Tienanmen square and the music of ‘Madchester’s’ Stone Roses sweep across England. Oh, and Britain’s first woman Prime Minister lost her job...
Adrian said:
“I've tried to capture the fantastic and energising drama of people standing up for something better and finding confidence to oppose what others said was impossible to alter or change in the early 1990's.”
For sales and more information please contact: mailto:[email protected],
m.07929291589
Invoices to: Adrian Johnson
£11.99 incl p&p
http://kindandgenerous.weebly.com/media-pack.html
‘Love and taxes’ the powerful first novel by Adrian Johnson – the city of Birmingham’s former poet laureate.
first published in 2010. Read all about how the people felled a political giant in the 25th anniversary year of popular resistance.
Fiction: paperback original, 216pp, £9.99 + £2 P+P ISBN: 978-0-9565957-0-6
Read about on AMAZON (but alas they don't stock it!!!!): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Taxes-Jack-Sandra-Polltax/dp/0956595707/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283324614&sr=1-1
“Adrian’s stories powerfully explore and dramatise the lives of the millions who campaigned against the poll tax.”
Tony Benn, former Labour minister
“Adrian Johnson’s work shines a much needed light on the Poll Tax debacle: a piece of history that should not be forgotten.”
Jonathan Davidson – director, the Birmingham book festival.
Adrian Johnson was the city of Birmingham’s 14th Poet Laureate, writer and storyteller He lives in Smethwick, Sandwell and works across the West Midlands with stories for adults and family groups that spring out of the very earth and heart of the middle lands that he has always lived in.
Adrian’s first novel, ‘Love and taxes’ is a pulsating story of love and struggle recalled by Jack Jameson, a naïve, young man that teams up with two idealists, Sandra and Pete, to speak up and protest the hugely unpopular poll tax in the world cup football year of 1990 - a period which saw the Berlin wall collapse, Nelson Mandela walk free, protest by Chinese students in Tienanmen square and the music of ‘Madchester’s’ Stone Roses sweep across England. Oh, and Britain’s first woman Prime Minister lost her job...
Adrian said:
“I've tried to capture the fantastic and energising drama of people standing up for something better and finding confidence to oppose what others said was impossible to alter or change in the early 1990's.”
For sales and more information please contact: mailto:[email protected],
m.07929291589
Invoices to: Adrian Johnson
£11.99 incl p&p
http://kindandgenerous.weebly.com/media-pack.html