Short description
This title is about Alan Clark's passion for cars - that he bought, drove and wrote about over 50 years.
Long description
Alan Clark was passionate about cars from an early age. He bought his first car - a secondhand 6.5 litre Bentley - while still a schoolboy at Eton and without a driving licence. By the time he was 24 he had been banned from driving three times, not only for speeding but in one instance for driving an open Buick Roadster with a girl on his lap. He dealt in 'classic' and vintage cars and soon built up an impressive stable of his own. One of his first published pieces of journalism appeared in the US magazine, Road and Track, for which he was briefly UK correspondent. BACK FIRE, the title of a column he wrote in Thoroughbred and Classic Cars magazine, ran for three years until his death in September 1999. Alan Clark's elder son, James Clark - who has inherited his father's motoring enthusiasms - provides a Prologue; Alan Clark's widow Jane writes a moving Afterword.
Review
Congratulations to Michael Collins who has won the Novel of the Year Award 2003 as awarded by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Assocation for The Resurrectionists. We have a set a June press date for this title. Michael will alsobe attending the Edinburgh Festival at the end of August, where he will be promoting his new book Lost Souls as well as the paperback of The Resurrectionists. Proofs for his next book, Lost Souls, are now with us so do take a look- it's a real treat! We have set a June press date for reviews. "Booker-shortlisted Michael Collins's latest novel is a brilliant evocation of depressed rural America as a modern-day heart of darkness."WATERSTONES BOOKS QUARTERLY "The plot is masterly and the writing dazzles; only the hopeless plight of the wretched protagonists fails to lift the spirits in this terrific story."GOOD