Burnt Lungs and Bitter Sweets - Paperback

by Urban Pigs Press (Editor), Virginia Betts (Author)

In 1976, Hoagie, Toad, Toggie and Jonesy love the Sex Pistols, shopping trolleys and getting wasted. When boredom is a crime and sedation is the solution it's never likely to end well. Cue the music and roll back the decades through misadventures in Amsterdam, disorder on the dance floor, a dodgy portaloo at at Millennium and a couple of dead rats. Maybe if that thing with Kecks hadn't happened, life for Hoagie would have been different?

'Seedy, gutsy and occasionally psychotic, if you like Martin Millar's Lux the Poet, you'll love this!' Jane Savidge; PR and author; Britpop lynchpin.

'Believeable characters brimming with energy and bad habits. Halfway through the first chapter I was completely hooked.' James Dom Estic; Punk poet, musician & performer.

'Brutal and unflinching, this is a book that takes you back to when music was exciting and having a good time was all that mattered.' Georgy Jamieson; freelance broadcaster, writer and event host; host of @RadioAcademy, Director @BritComSociety.

'An intruiguing glimpse into young adulthood at a certain time and place, told in a distinctive voice that weaves between years and colourful characters.' Winnie M Li; award-winning author of Complicit and Dark Chapter.