#5 - Matt Hill (Quiet Loner)
Episode description
‘In The Bookshop’ is a podcast about books, recorded in an actual bookshop - George Street Community Bookshop - in Glossop, Derbyshire, UK. We invite guests in to the bookshop with their favourite books to talk about them.
In this episode, our guest is singer-songwriter Matt Hill, also known as Quiet Loner. He picks out and discusses five of his favourite books with host and bookshop manager, Steve Roberts. We also hear excerpts of Matt’s songs which have been directly inspired by some of theses books.
The books discussed are:
The Hard Way Up: Autobiography of Hannah Mitchell, Suffragette and Rebel by Hannah Mitchell
The Executioner's Song by Normam Mailer
Earthlights Revelation : UFOs and Mystery Lightform Phenomena - The Earth's Secret Energy Force by Paul Devereux
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Careless Love: the Unmaking of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick
The featured songs are:
Hannah from The Battle For The Ballot
Even Elvis Presley Cried Himself To Sleep At Night (live performance)
Used with permission.
About the bookshop
Based in George Street, Glossop, we are an independent, second-hand bookshop, owned and run by the community, showcasing a huge range of genre fiction, collectibles, local interest books and children’s literature. Established in July 2018, we are breathing new life into this local treasure.