Pomona Publishing House and Record Label  
Pomona Publishing House and Record Label
Sat December 14th 2024 



Keep up to date with all things Pomona by subscribing to our newsletter service..
Register here. Go on.
Mark Hodkinson - Believe in the Sign

Believe in the Sign

Mark Hodkinson

Pub: December 2006
ISBN 1-904-59017--9



Visit Our online Store

Believe in the Sign is about a damp corner of England where nothing much but everything happens. It is a ‘sort of a memoir' of a normal, average boy who would have grown up happily average and normal but for a dark and perverse passion: the seductive lure of masochistic devotion to a no-hope, near-derelict football club.

But it isn't all joyously uplifting. Swimming through the murk is a swarm of snapshots that bring growing up in the 1970s and 1980s into startling focus. Mad kids and sad kids and good kids from broken homes; teenage wrecking parties; pub brawls; long existential marches along the motorway banking; the baiting of Elton John and a club chairman caught playing 'away from home.'

Then Death bumps into Life. A girl is abducted and the town becomes a cave, the light sucked out. Meanwhile in the sunny shine outside, the future is afoot: cotton mills close down and supermarkets invade; school-leavers evolve into YOP-fodder and everyone's mum is holding Tupperware parties to get the down-payment on a colour telly.

Variously serious and funny, steely-eyed and tender, Hodkinson plumbs the depths but isn't afraid of the shallows. Dip a toe.

| Main | Extract | What the papers say | MarkHodkinson.com |











Home · News · Books · Store · Links · Contact · Trade Info · Site Map Top Of Page