"The success of Images of Sheffield, published in 1993, came largely because the book was not just another compilation of photographs but, with careful and varied selection, plus detailed captions, offered something much more rewarding and satisfying. This second collection forms an ideal companion volume, for while it is just as representative of the city and features intriguing shots of the central areas, it also attempts to give extra attention to suburban Sheffield. And while every picture tells a story, each image is supported with words which will increase the reader's knowledge, offer illumination or amusement, or simply a pleasing jog to the memory! Mainly drawn from the files of the picture library at The Star, but supplemented with illustrations gathered from other sources."

This title gives an intriguing insight into a Sheffield which has long since disappeared. Author and successful writer/journalist Keith Farnsworth tells his own story of a life in Sheffield after the Second World War, from the heart with humour and honesty. An absorbing essay in autobiography from the pen of one of South Yorkshire's leading historians and football writers, "A Sheffield Boy" is representative of an entire generation, an intriguing insight into a Sheffield which has long since disappeared. Essentially, though, it captures one man's memories of growing up in the East End/Pitsmoor and Woodside districts in the 1940s and 1950s, as he recalls the trials and triumphs of an eventful and often traumatic journey through boyhood and adolescence. Keith Farnsworth writes from the heart with the humour and honesty of an inverterate romantic who, despite a background and circumstances which were often far from ideal, finally achieved success and fulfilment as a writer and journalist after spells as a trainee scale mechanic, junior clerk, boy soldier, hotel porter, salesman and a succession of other jobs. Whether recalling his grandfather's mysterious disapperance at sea, the injustice of being expelled from school, life in a lodging house, or the many Sheffield characters he met along the way, "A Sheffield Boy" tells a colourful and entertaining tale of life in this great city after the Second World War.