Stuart Kelly

An unlikely comeback: Rare Singles, by Benjamin Myers, reviewed

Dinah, a soul aficionado from Scarborough, persuades the forgotten elderly singer ‘Bucky’ Bronco to be guest of honour at a special concert. But will it all be hugely embarrassing?

Scarborough, the setting for Benjamin Myers’s latest novel. [Getty Images]
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  • Rare Singles

    Benjamin Myers

    Bloomsbury, pp. 224, £18

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