About Northway Books
Northway Books (also known as Northway Publications) is a British publisher based in London, founded in the year 2000. Northway specialises in British social history and books about jazz, especially autobiographies and biographies of musicians in Britain.
The catalogue includes autobiographies by trumpeter-cornettist Digby Fairweather, saxophonist-club owner Ronnie Scott, bassist Coleridge Goode, trumpeter John Chilton and clarinettist-saxophonist Vic Ash, along with biographies of Johnny Griffin, Hank Mobley, Nat Gonella, Harry Gold and Joe Harriott. Other books about jazz published by Northway are Jim Godbolt's History of Jazz in Britain 1919–50, Ian Carr's Music Outside: Contemporary Jazz in Britain, Graham Collier's The Jazz Composer and books by playwright-jazz lover Alan Plater, critic Peter Vacher, and poet and socialist critic Chris Searle.
Northway books on social history include the acclaimed war memoir, Boys at War, which was serialised in the Mail on Sunday, and Swing from a Small Island, which brings music, racism and religion together in the life story of Leslie Thompson.
Featured Titles
 | Boys at War by Russell Margerison Russell Margerison writes of the dangerous but strangely unreal world of the air gunner, sitting high in the turret of a bomber over Europe. £7.99 |  | West End Methodism: The Story of Hinde Street by Alan Brooks The rich history of this well-known Methodist church and the inner London area of Marylebone. £20.00 |
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