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Brighton Babylon by Peter Jarrette (Paperback, 2013)

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ISBN-13: 9780956803856, 978-0956803856. 'Bags of fish for cats - 50 pence'. Newly relocated from London, Brighton resident Peter Jarrette combines and intertwines his stories, using a colourful palette that is one part Brokeback Beach and three parts seawater.

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'Bags of fish for cats - 50 pence'. So it was written, on a chalkboard sign outside a fresh fishmonger's, under the arches of the raised promenade along the beachfront of England's newly super trendy and booming seaside City of Brighton and Hove. In Brighton Babylon, PK Heights is a Grade II listed maisonette flat in one of the City's up and coming Regency Squares that provides the elegant base for a series of interlocking true stories about the city's people and their lives. Newly relocated from London, Brighton resident Peter Jarrette combines and intertwines his stories, using a colourful palette that is one part Brokeback Beach and three parts seawater. He vividly portrays a selection of suspect characters and shocking episodes; much like the curious bits and pieces that might be on offer in one of those bags of fish for cats. To the author's consternation, the residents and visitors are a thoroughly peculiar and motley crew. This former string of south coast fishing villages with a royal and decadent past may now be a thoroughly cosmopolitan City and even aspire to being an international hub, but it has not yet lost its renowned and celebrated dark side, far from it. Brighton Babylon is populated by a cast of unsavoury hobos and bother boys; Yardie obsessed golden shower webmasters from nearby Crawley; mistakenly racist London hairdressers; strangely scripted market researchers; extemporised short-haul cabin crew; pushy airline First Officers; politically incorrect new food emporia; a vengeful, crumbling resort Pier and a locally obsessed, cat-mad press pack.

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Publisher
Dynasty Press LTD
ISBN-13
9780956803856
eBay Product ID (ePID)
139759527

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Book Title
Brighton Babylon
Author
Peter Jarrette
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Travel Writing
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
396 Pages

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Peter Jarrette
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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by pugwash197207 Mar, 2013
Original, personal and highly amusing diary-style account of daily life.
An elegantly written account of Peter's time in Brighton, living, working and socialising. Short chapters almost make me think I'm reading his personal diary, full of witty insights and remarks about the people and places he encounters. Even if this isn't "your sort of book", read it. The next time I visit Brighton I'll be hunting down some of the bars and haunts, and probably the author!

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