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Graham Shepherd is a typical son of Sheffield.

His Parson Cross and Shirecliffe childhood could be considered uneventful – unless, like him you see humour, nostalgia, poignancy, absurdity, irony and adventure in life’s everyday occurrences.

Graham suffers from a sense of inverted snobbery which is displayed in his love of the Sheffield dialect. “Why should them southerners dictate how we talk?”

His baby boom education, like Sheffield industry in the early 1950s, suffered from mass production, but one caring teacher convinced him that he had a talent for creative writing.

He mulled over these rare words of encouragement for fifty years or so until, following his own favourite motto, (There’s nowt wrong wi’ scratchin’an ‘itch!) he decided to publish his childhood memoirs.

His one regret is his lack of imagination, as a result of which every word in his book is true.