Perfect Bound  paperback

165 pages

ISBN 978-1-326-66620-0

This is a great debut by an engaging author who writes from experience.

There are elements that evoke a sense of Colin MacInnes novel Absolute Beginners, and moments that are like the original tale that Nik Cohn wrote and was later developed into the blockbusting American movie Saturday Night Fever. Yes - Rob Massey has produced a novel that really captures the British urban young man educating himself.

It’s summertime in England and the flowers are in bloom. But, for a recent college boy like Artie, the prospects are not good. These are the early eighties and there’s a collapsing economy and three million unemployed.

So what does Artie do? Does he let it put him off his stride? That’s not the way he lives his life. The big, bad age of responsibility is on the horizon so he’s going to enjoy himself while he can. Forget the negative, concentrate on the music, the clothes, the parties, the other delights out there.

There’s fun to be had and he’s going to find it in the technicolor world of rhythm and soul that emanates from his stereo and beyond. Put on the threads, turn down the lights, turn up the jukebox. Artie’s on a voyage of fun and discovery as he loses himself in his very own Indian summer.

Perfect Bound  paperback

165 pages

ISBN 978-1-326-66620-0

This is a great debut by an engaging author who writes from experience.

There are elements that evoke a sense of Colin MacInnes novel Absolute Beginners, and moments that are like the original tale that Nik Cohn wrote and was later developed into the blockbusting American movie Saturday Night Fever. Yes - Rob Massey has produced a novel that really captures the British urban young man educating himself.

It’s summertime in England and the flowers are in bloom. But, for a recent college boy like Artie, the prospects are not good. These are the early eighties and there’s a collapsing economy and three million unemployed.

So what does Artie do? Does he let it put him off his stride? That’s not the way he lives his life. The big, bad age of responsibility is on the horizon so he’s going to enjoy himself while he can. Forget the negative, concentrate on the music, the clothes, the parties, the other delights out there.

There’s fun to be had and he’s going to find it in the technicolor world of rhythm and soul that emanates from his stereo and beyond. Put on the threads, turn down the lights, turn up the jukebox. Artie’s on a voyage of fun and discovery as he loses himself in his very own Indian summer.

ISBN 978-1-326-93582-5

Perfect bound paperback book, 99 Pages

Print Book: A5 (5.83 x 8.27 in / 148 x 210 mm).

Up Beat Down is a worthy successor to the earlier volume Beat Dimensions. It contains Cat In The Sack, Danny’s first real attempt at spontaneous rhyme, and many more which have been fired by a burst of inspiration, such as a phrase or a newspaper article. Some poems were influenced by the brilliance of John Cooper Clarke, who’s voice Danny could hear as he worked. There’s social observation here, a kitchen sink visit to reality, twenty-twenty-four style, with an emphasis on authenticity rather than what might be presented by the mainstream media. You’ll be taken to Paris, to a tourist landmark, but you won’t see it like you would in the brochure. You’ll go to a traditional English pub but it won’t be a picture postcard. You’ll encounter contemporary mores, contemporary bores, the trend for home deliveries and dialling a ride, the lives that are lived beneath a major flight path, a world where the use of AI is taking over. But there are contemporary inspirations as well. You’ll sing to these melodies. You’ll hear what spurs the muse, where it can take you if you write for yourself and don’t worry about restrictions. In the world unseen by the mainstream, you’ll feel the pulse of the imagination, the beat, the bebop, the soul. You’ll be taken to Soho, to the land of the absolute beginner, the home of the hip, you’ll touch the creases of the cloth, meet the hedonistic delights that take you to the moon and back. It’s all there in a phrase, a moment of truth that you will recognise, whether you knew it before or not. There are nods to modernism, art, culture, music. You’ll visit subculture, eighteenth century style. You’ll find a oneness with nature. There will be descriptions of reality, from the gentle pursuit of angling, so real in fact that you could almost be there, to the pleasures of plonk. There are personal recollections, innermost memories. Fears coming alive in the corridors of nightmares. The underclass personified in the decline of small towns. The blight of waste products littering the urban landscape. This is a book that brings Modernist Beat Poetry into the spotlight. As writer Jason Brummell says you need to , "Dig it and Dig in!"

Cover art by Graeme Webb

Foreword by Rob Massey

Raised on a diet of glam rock and chart pop, flares and tank tops, learning the rules and then learning there were no rules. Music and fashion going hand in hand, ever-changing. Taking sides, loyalties that would last for decades, spotting the next trend and moving on, then taking it a step further, getting ahead. Reaching 16 in ‘79, scanning the radar, faced with choices, plotting a new course, mod, ska, new romantic, rockabilly, goth, choosing which route to take and for how long. Wasted youths? takes us from young farmers’ club discos to the pubs of Camden Town via early ‘80s Oxford. The fashions, fads and factions that meant the world. A celebration of youth, lost loves, lost jumpers, missed opportunities and missed gigs, favourite shirts and dream shoes.

Perfect Bound Paperback 

ISBN 978-1-4467-6899-0

The modernist and original Beat ethos of getting your kicks is never far away, and experience is everything. This is what makes Beat Dimensions highly relateable collection of Modernist Beat Poetry - for if you enjoy music, art and style you will admire Danny's personal perspective. He shows you the dimensions of his world, a world that draws on inspiration, improvisation and an intricate fluidity that is not unlike that of a great jazz album. So, take five - and enter this dimension, I am pretty sure it won't be last you will want to dive into.

'Dark and foreboding passages are weaved together with a promise of better days ahead, in an eclectic collection of poems. Earthy, rich and very much worth your attention.'

ISBN 978-1-4709-7023-9

Perfect Bound paperback
Welcome to Tales of Jazz Volume One. This book is the first in a series of books that share fictional tales that have an association with jazz, whether it be Rag time, Bebop, Swing, Trad or Modern. Jazz funk or Acid Jazz - it doesn't matter what offshoot it is. The books are about conveying themes and experience. Each story has the energy of a music that thrills, or touches the soul. Influences are reflected by characters portrayed and share the inclusivity that music can bring. Like the Beat Generation of the last century, these very modern writers embrace rhythm, and experience, and sometimes share a spiritual element that is recognisable by other enthusiasts.

Writers Rob Massey, Nathan James Le-Bas, Jason Brummell, Pete Mckenna, Jason Disley and Paul Anderson take you into these jazz filled environments where music and life collides. Creativity like a piece of jazz breathes life into each story, taking you on separate journeys that are a testament to music and lifestyle. 

ISBN: 9781471027789

Pages 98

BindingPaperback

Interior ColorBlack & White

Dimensions A5 (5.83 x 8.27 in / 148 x 210 mm)

By (author): Ross Maclean-Bryant, Foreword by: Jason Disley

A Smorgasbord of Curious Novelties &  Other Nonsensical  Bric – a- Brac is Ross Maclean-Bryant at his best.  You, dear reader are going to be taken on a trip of seasides,  and free rides.  A  rabbit – hole of wonder and a book that is everything you would expect.  The variety of this Smorgasbord is tasty,  and I can not  recommend it highly enough.  So,  dive in to the ocean,  and follow the Chimp,  the Elephant in the room and the Giraffe on his motorcycle and the other characters Ross has created and know that this will be a book that you will revisit often. 

Perfect Bound Paperback 

©Robert Garnham 2022

‘Woodview is an evocative and sensitive collection of poems and prose that resonates with leaving childhood behind and searching for an identity. Robert is known for his wit and whimsical works, ever present here. Tenderly sitting beside these are the beautiful and honest poems in the section ‘A Person’ where Robert shows ‘the workings of my heart’. Woodview is Robert at his very best’.