Paperboy

Twelve-year-old Tony Macaulay was appointed paperboy of Shankill Road in 1975. At the height of the Troubles, as bombs blasted, mobs clashed and sirens wailed through the streets, he did the daily rounds without fail. From barricades to the Bay City Rollers, platform shoes to paramilitaries, this is a story of happiness in dark times, a charming, funny and touching coming-of-age journey set in a very different - but very familiar - world.