Second City Blues
Two new accounts of growing up and leaving Birmingham provide moving accounts of the snobbery and misunderstanding directed at England's second city.
Something odd happened to me while reading I Don’t Want to Go to the Taj Mahal by Charlie Hill and Bolt from the Blue by Jeremy Cooper, both set in my native city of Birmingham. I devoured the two books at breakneck speed, both of them requiring of me almost no concerted effort of imagination […]