{"product_id":"capture-spiral","title":"Capture Spiral","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Capture Spiral: An Escape from Memory, Jez Conolly revisits the haunted textures of a 1970s childhood on the Lincolnshire coast, where faded seaside amusements and family silences conceal deeper undercurrents of curiosity, dread, and wonder. Written with precision, wit, and a lyrical eye for the uncanny, this memoir intertwines personal history with cultural memory, uncovering the makeshift surreal hiding in the mundane. A beautifully unsettling portrait of place, time, and the strange persistence of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jez Conolly's \"storied\" interior odyssey charts his experiences of the prosaic and incongruous from childhood through puberty, fighting for an inner escape from the strangulating conformity of Cleethorpes. A mixtape of memories past, from two tortoises named Toby to the rotating clown heads of Wonderland. Capture Spiral is a user's guide for a night gallery of childhood-origin neuroses, and a celebration of the \"great escape\" we call imagination.\"\u003cbr\u003eStephen Volk, author of Ghostwatch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A brilliant, cynical, heart-warming autobiography, wrapped in nostalgia and hauntology, but with poison-tipped needles at its core. Jez Conolly's tales of growing up in Cleethorpes, the maudlin sadness of Bagpuss, watching queasy Schools and Colleges programmes while off sick from school, and the sheer horror of 'laughing bags' and Blackpool's Doctor Who exhibition should be familiar to anyone from the Scarred For Life era.\"\u003cbr\u003eStephen Brotherstone, author of Scarred For Life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Absolutely nails the shabby wonder of a twentieth century British childhood.\"\u003cbr\u003eStephen Gallagher, screenwriter Doctor Who, Silent Witness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 199pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEntrance\u003cbr\u003eCleethorpes: Recollection and Curiosity (1965-1973)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter One\u003cbr\u003ePlaying Dead: The Rebellion of Withholding (1973)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter Two\u003cbr\u003eWishbones and Watching: The Upside of Being Very Poorly (1973)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter Three\u003cbr\u003e‘One Day, Emily Found A Thing’: Oliver Postgate and The Eco-Ephemera of ‘Sunday Constitutionals’ (1974)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter Four\u003cbr\u003eFlask Tea and Lay-Bys: Family Picnicking by the Side of the Road (1974)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter Five\u003cbr\u003eFingers and Masks: The Joke Shop Rite of Passage (1974)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter Six\u003cbr\u003eGrand Guignol: Scarborough, Taxidermy and the Gifford Book (1975)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven\u003cbr\u003eLaughter and Birdsong: The Tax Inspector from Nuremberg (1975)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight\u003cbr\u003eSpearmint and Starlight: The Universe in Uncle Harry’s Shed (1975)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter Nine\u003cbr\u003eO Wonderland!: The Nightmare of ‘Fun’ (1976)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter Ten\u003cbr\u003eOut of the Black Pool: The Pleasure of Effigies (1977)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter Eleven\u003cbr\u003eHercules Unchained: The Tragedy of the Zoo (1978)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExit\u003cbr\u003eSome Thing to Do: An Escape Through Body Horror (1978-1983)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TEMPORAL BOUNDARY PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58713237389656,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/0340\/7448\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_03afad6d-715e-4f45-b2df-fa9bc18db582.jpg?v=1791563386","url":"https:\/\/iglootree.com\/products\/capture-spiral","provider":"Iglootree","version":"1.0","type":"link"}