Between Marx and Marzipan

Front cover of original version of Between Marx and Marzipan, showing an image of Mary at a demonstration.
Back cover of original version of Between Marx and Marzipan, showing the outline of Ned and the wording "Young Ned is obsessed..." etc.

Between Marx and marzipan in the dictionary

There was Mary

Between the Deep Blue Sea and the Devil

That was me

Billy Bragg, 1988

Table of Contents
What’s That Sound?  Where is it Coming From?Read
We’re Going to a Party Way Down SouthRead
I’ll Never Forget the First Day I Met HerRead
If Anyone Could Help me with my ObsessionRead
No One Idea can Solve every Problem On EarthRead
Sweet Moderation, Heart of this NationRead
Running Round the Town with the Young PretenderRead
I Never Understood My Failings ThenRead
He Lies through his Teeth with Impeccable GrammarRead
Hold My Hand For Me, I’m Waking UpRead
Something That Every Football Fan KnowsRead
Just Remember, There are Two Sides to Every StoryRead
Then Raise the Scarlet Standard HighRead
The Chase is so much better than the KillRead
The Meaning of UnrequitedRead
She Danced with me and I still hold that Memory soft and SweetRead
Sometimes When We’re as Close as this it’s like we’re in a DreamRead
I Lied to Myself ‘bout the Chances I’d WastedRead
Victims of a Love that Lost a lot in the TranslationRead
Theirs is a Land of Hope and GloryRead
It was just like being on a fast ride at the Fun Fair.  The sort you wanna get off because it’s scary.  And then as soon as you’re off, you want to get straight back on again.Read
This Loneliness that You call FreedomRead
I Don’t Want to Change the WorldRead
Active with the ActivistsRead
Intelligence, A Swiss Army Knife, and CharmRead
You’ll never be any good at this game, you bruise too easilyRead
Beyond The Sport Lies the SpiritualRead
Acknowledgements & Further ReadingRead

Ned Wood is

  • A Vinyl Addict
  • An Exec Stand Season Ticket Holder
  • A Liar
  • A part-time Fanzine Writer
  • Old enough to remember Eddie and the Hot Rods

Between Marx and Marzipan is

  • Ned’s first novel
  • An incomplete and inaccurate record of the 1976-77 Season
  • Unauthorised Autobiography
  • Fiction
  • A Love Story
  • Beautifully Illustrated front and back by Amanda Wood.
The original artwork for the back cover of Between Marx and Marzipan, showing an outline image of Ned wearing two badges: a Nottingham Forest badge and an Eddie & the Hot Rods badge.