George Melly's three autobiographical memoirs - "Scouse Mouse", "Rum, Bum and Concertina" and "Owning Up" are put together in one volume for the first time.

This is an account of the author's life from childhood in middle-class Liverpool in the 1930s, through National Service in the Royal Navy as an ordinary seaman to his emergence as a connoisseur of surrealist art and his career as a jazz singer.

Once demobbed, Melly comes to London to work in an art gallery, and in "Owning Up", he describes how he slipped into the world of the jazz revival, revelling in an endless round of pubs, clubs, seedy guesthouses and transport caffs while surrounded by a mad array of musicians, tarts, drunks and arch-eccentrics.


ISBN: 0141390018
ISBN-13: 978-0141390017