Jump to content

itsmeagain

Advanced Member
  • Posts

    1,534
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by itsmeagain

  1. Tried Dervla Murphy, tales from two cities. It concerns the so called race relations in Manningham, Bradford, and Handsworth in Birmingham. She is a travel writer of some good reputation. She writes wittily and eloquently.She talks to Asian people and non Asian people in Bradford, she hangs around the Villa Cross pub in Birmingham, looking at self styled Rastafarians cutting up hash in pubs, etc. Essentially she looks to me to be looking for trouble. Various things irritate me about this book, written in 1986 , about her travels in 1985...how can you not mention the Bradford city fire disaster of 1985 when you lived in Manningham for 6 months and were in the local area when 56 people died?

×
×
  • Create New...