Owning Up: The Trilogy

This single volume includes three famous Memoirs – SCOUSE MOUSE, RUM, BUM & CONCERTINA and OWNING UP. SCOUSE MOUSE is a funny and frequently touching story of the author’s 1930s childhood in a middle-class Liverpudlian household. RUM, BUM & CONCERTINA describes Melly’s National Service in which he becomes an anarchist and connoisseur of Surrealist Art while self-educating himself on some of the wilder shores of love. In London, Melly works in an art gallery and in OWNING UP describes how he slipped into the world of the jazz revival, revelling in an endless round of pubs, clubs, seedy guest-houses and transport caffs while surrounded by a mad array of musicians, tarts, drunks and arch-eccentrics.