I Could Be So Good for You

“Fantastic - a much-needed history of a class claimed regularly not to exist, and a compendious, endlessly quotable book of facts, anecdotes and tales of the ‘working class bohemia’ that existed, and crucially still exists, and changes and grows and thrives, in the lands south of Watford, east of Staines, north of the Thames and west of the Lea’”
“This is a Dickens for a postwar North London… an intimate letter to the North London working class, written out of a tough love, completely shorn of sentimentality. This is an important book. I know of no other quite like it. I wish I had written it.”
“It’s great to see that ordinary London working class voices, not normally heard, are well represented in this cracking social history.”
“A vivid and compelling account of North London society from the 1950s to the present… This is grass-roots local history at its best.”

John Medhurst was born and raised in Camden, London, and studied History and Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. He works for one of the UK’s largest trade unions and is an Executive Director of the Labour Research Department. He is the author of That Option No Longer Exists- Britain 1974-76 (Zero, 2014); No Less Than Mystic- A History of the Russian Revolution for a 21st Century Left (Repeater, 2017); and Sub Culture- The Many Lives of the Submarine (Reaktion, 2022).

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