'For those who know about provincial newspapers, this will be a
classic and a gem. Those who don't know will envy what they have
missed' MELVYN BRAGG 'Brisk and entertaining. A very readable love
letter to a disappearing world, told with verve and tenderness'
STUART MACONIE, author of Pies and Prejudice 'Gut-bustingly funny,
poignant and packed with astonishing insider information' M. W.
CRAVEN, author of the award-winning The Puppet Show 'Local
journalism has never seemed more exotic than in this part-memoir,
part-ode to that disappearing art, which is as funny as it is
endearing . . . Told with a tender fondness, the bonkers, baffling
but vital world of local press is paraded with the style that it
deserves' JONATHAN WHITELAW, Sun 'Refreshingly honest, engagingly
self-deprecating, tremendously funny and more than a little
heartbreaking. By far my favourite read of the year so far' MIKE
WARD, TV critic, Daily Express/Daily Star 'Local publishers . . .
need to hold on to thoughtful, dedicated writers such as Roger
Lytollis, or his book will be an epitaph to a centuries-old
industry' IAN BURRELL, i paper 'Anyone who has ever worked at a
local newspaper, or wondered what it is like, should read this
book' DOMINIC PONSFORD, media editor at New Statesman Media
Group/editor-in-chief at Press Gazette '[Lytollis] writes with
clarity, comically self-effacing honesty and surprising poignancy .
. . [this is] the story of what it is like to love what you do, and
be great at it, and to watch it collapse around you in slow motion'
ROBYN VINTER, Guardian 'For anyone wondering where their local
press went, this is as clear an account of how it was pickpocketed,
drained of blood, and left to die as you'll find' ED NEEDHAM,
Strong Words magazine 'Panic as Man Burns Crumpets gives a
powerful, if not to say dismaying, overview of an industry in
terminal decline' NAT SEGNIT, Times Literary Supplement You dreamed
of being a journalist and the dream has come true. You love working
for your local paper . . . although not everything is as you
imagined. You embarrass yourself with a range of celebrities, from
John Hurt to Jordan. Your best story is 'The Man With the Pigeon
Tattoo'. A former colleague interviews President Trump. You urinate
in the president of the Mothers' Union's garden. Your appearance as
a hard-hitting columnist on a BBC talk show does not go well. And
being photographed naked is only the second most humiliating thing
to happen one infamous afternoon. There are serious stories, such
as a mass shooting, a devastating flood, and the search for
Madeleine McCann. Meanwhile local papers are dying. Your building
is crumbling and your readership is dwindling. Your carefully
crafted features are read by fewer people than a story about fancy
dress for dogs. Panic as Man Burns Crumpets is the inside story of
local newspapers during the past twenty-five years, told in a way
that's funny, poignant and revealing.
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