Yobbery Under Arms | Bonar Thompson & Trevor Blake (ed)

Published by mogtus-sanlux
ISBN: 978-1-944651-39-8
$16.50
6 x 9", 180 pp., paperback, matte cover

“I don't see why a man should go out to work whilst he has the strength to stay in bed.” — Bonar Thompson, quoted in Freedom

Bonar Thompson was not a man improved by employment, authority, patriotic instruction, or the soft tyranny of sensible opinion. Born in County Antrim and eventually enthroned by reputation as the “Prime Minister of Hyde Park,” Thompson made his kingdom from a speaker’s platform, a black hat, an insolent tongue, and a genius for becoming unmanageable.

Yobbery Under Arms is one of three perfectly balanced collections of Thompson’s writings, edited and introduced by Trevor Blake. Each volume stands alone, and there is no prescribed order of reading. Thompson himself would have likely advised you that every page is brilliant and that your only error was not having read him sooner.

This volume gathers essays and fugitive pieces from a writer who had known poverty, prison, crowds, causes, and the public appetite for being lied to loudly. He is comic, savage, vain, lucid, contradictory, and often correct in the most inconvenient way.

Also available as part of a discounted three-volume Bonar Thompson bundle.