No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader [Paperback]

Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. Today, Mark is an author, journalist and publisher. He still lives in Rochdale but is now surrounded by 3,500 titles - at the last count.

No One Round Here Reads Tolstoyis his story of growing up a working-class lad during the 1970s and 1980s. It's about the schools, the music, the people - but pre-eminently and profoundly the books and authors that led the way and shaped his life. It's about a family who didn't see the point of reading, and a troubled grandad who taught Mark the power of stories. It's also a story of how writing and reading has changed over the last five decades.

Mark Hodkinsonhas written forThe Timesfor two decades, three years as a columnist. He has also contributed to theObserver,Guardian,Mail on Sundayand others. He is the author ofBlue Moon: Down Among the Dead Men with Manchester City, which is regularly cited as a football classic, andBelieve in the Sign, which was longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. His novels includeThe Last Mad Surge of Youth, which was nominated asQ's Novel of the Year, andThat Summer Feeling.He owns Pomona Books and has published titles by Simon Armitage, Barry Hines, Ian McMillan, Ray Gosling, Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), Bob Stanley (Saint Etienne) and many more. He also commissioned and edited the much-acclaimed biographyJ.D. Salinger: A Life, which was made into a film starring Nicholas Hoult.

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