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Val Hennessy

    Not Far from Dreamland
    In the gutter
    • 2015

      Not Far from Dreamland

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      At his wind-battered bungalow on the North Kent coast, Ronald Tonks records, in his journal, how he's getting to grips with life's little challenges - dodgy teeth, online dating, ukulele gigs, capricious women, literary discourse, modern youth, cocking a snoot at authority and wangling a ticket for a Leonard Cohen concert. Will he go mad and blow his winter fuel allowance? Will his dog's baldness problem be solved? Will his life, as his horoscope predicts, take a sudden dramatic turn? Phew! This is old-age in the fast(ish) lane, no two ways ...

      Not Far from Dreamland
    • 1978

      In the gutter

      • 95 pages
      • 4 hours of reading

      In this book Hennessy describes her TV encounter with punk fans 'Punk and Acne Go Together'. The book combines the very best of the punk press photographs and the most interesting pictures of primitive peoples resplendent in their ritual adornments. Combined, the material evolved into a book which offers a visual celebration of the phenomenon that is 'punk'

      In the gutter