Reviews

"Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction but in Chill Wind off the Tyne John Orton manages to mix them in ways that dramatise working-class lives during the 1930s. He is the Catherine Cookson for our times - and far better on the social history." - Robert Colls - Professor of Cultural History, De Montfort University, Author of 'George Orwell: English Rebel'"In this third volume in John Orton's brilliantly fictionalised account of life in the early twentieth century North East, he presents the struggles and triumphs of working people in the eventful years of war and Depression between 1900 and 1940. This is forgotten social history retold with gripping authenticity." - John Gray - Author of 'Straw Dogs: thoughts on humans and other animals'