Andrew Lees was born on Merseyside and is a professor of Neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery Queen Square. He is the author of Ray of Hope, the authorised biography of Ray Kennedy, the Arsenal and Liverpool football player who developed Parkinson's disease at the age of 35.

"Powerful, passionate, punchy and provocative" Liverpool Echo "At last a book on Liverpool with the heart and zest the city deserves ... a cornucopia of colour and detail" -- Jamie McKendrick, poet "The remarkable sweep and scope of this book traces the many origins and formative energies of this most anarchic, carnivalesque, promiscuous and contradictory of cities" -- Paul Farley, poet and author of Edgelands "The author has threaded his way through [a] tangled web of materials vividly to evoke for us a distinctive myth-history of the city" -- Peter Robinson, poet and editor of The Liverpool Accents "A melancholic peregrination through Liverpool and its history ... the book distills a history of the slave trade, migration and the development of the port, establishing Liverpool's peculiar character via familiar themes: football, sectarianism, music, dialect, violence, dockers and the Militant tendency" The Times Literary Supplement

Andrew Lees was born on Merseyside and is a professor of Neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery Queen Square. He is the author of Ray of Hope, the authorised biography of Ray Kennedy, the Arsenal and Liverpool football player who developed Parkinson's disease at the age of 35.

"Powerful, passionate, punchy and provocative" Liverpool Echo "At last a book on Liverpool with the heart and zest the city deserves ... a cornucopia of colour and detail" -- Jamie McKendrick, poet "The remarkable sweep and scope of this book traces the many origins and formative energies of this most anarchic, carnivalesque, promiscuous and contradictory of cities" -- Paul Farley, poet and author of Edgelands "The author has threaded his way through [a] tangled web of materials vividly to evoke for us a distinctive myth-history of the city" -- Peter Robinson, poet and editor of The Liverpool Accents "A melancholic peregrination through Liverpool and its history ... the book distills a history of the slave trade, migration and the development of the port, establishing Liverpool's peculiar character via familiar themes: football, sectarianism, music, dialect, violence, dockers and the Militant tendency" The Times Literary Supplement

Andrew Lees was born on Merseyside and is a professor of Neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery Queen Square. He is the author of Ray of Hope, the authorised biography of Ray Kennedy, the Arsenal and Liverpool football player who developed Parkinson's disease at the age of 35.

"Powerful, passionate, punchy and provocative" Liverpool Echo "At last a book on Liverpool with the heart and zest the city deserves ... a cornucopia of colour and detail" -- Jamie McKendrick, poet "The remarkable sweep and scope of this book traces the many origins and formative energies of this most anarchic, carnivalesque, promiscuous and contradictory of cities" -- Paul Farley, poet and author of Edgelands "The author has threaded his way through [a] tangled web of materials vividly to evoke for us a distinctive myth-history of the city" -- Peter Robinson, poet and editor of The Liverpool Accents "A melancholic peregrination through Liverpool and its history ... the book distills a history of the slave trade, migration and the development of the port, establishing Liverpool's peculiar character via familiar themes: football, sectarianism, music, dialect, violence, dockers and the Militant tendency" The Times Literary Supplement