“Ghost Town - A Liverpool Shadowplay” - which was shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Book Awards in the Biography category - with an event to mark its publication in paperback. This beautiful edition also includes 16 full colour plates from Jeff’s note books.
In this wonderful memoir, Jeff Young takes us on a journey through the Liverpool of his childhood – down back alleys, through arcades, into vanished tenements and oyster bars, strip-tease pubs and theatres. We watch as he turns from schoolboy truant into an artist obsessed with Kafka, Terence Davies and The Fall. Along the way he conjures ghosts and puts hexes on the developers who’ve ruined the city of his dreams. Layering memory, history and photography, this is a highly original approach to this great city. This is a journey through a Liverpool dreamscape in which Jeff Young’s personal history as a Secondary Modern kid and the life of his family, especially his sister Val who died during the writing of the book, loom large.