AUGUST 27, 2026 BY THELMA McGOUGH (AUTHOR)
The front cover of the August 2026 book release by Thelma (Pickles) McGough:
This is a book that I have anxiously anticipated for a considerable amount of time. It promises to most certainly deliver many fascinating stories about postwar Liverpool, the early Beatles, and a lady trying to find her identity along the way during those very hectic times!
AMAZON UK: (pre-order link):
This post will be amended once notification of a US release is posted!
320 pages
Publisher
HarperNorth
AMAZON UK DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK:
“The unmissable memoir of a life at the heart of 60s culture – from Lennon and McCartney, to the Mersey Beat Poets and more.
Who was John Lennon’s first girlfriend? Who is the only woman to have dated Lennon and McCartney? And Tom Wolfe. And Anthony ‘Madchester’ Wilson. And married Roger McGough?
Thelma McGough is all these things – but as her captivating memoir shows, she is far more than that. While those relationships gave her a unique vantage point on the cultural revolution of the swinging sixties, her real journey has always been towards knowing who she really is – as a daughter, a partner, a mother – and crucially, in her own right.
Thelma’s astonishing life is shot through with fierce ambition to become an artist, while navigating incredible love affairs, bearing witness to pop history, raising her sons and tracing the secret at the heart of her family.
Now, she shares her story, along with diary entries, photos and letters, a journey not just from deprived wartime Liverpool through to era-defining moments in pop history, but a story of breaking the confines of class, identity and what it means to find your voice.“
This appears like it will be an incredible memoir by Thelma McGough, and I am sure that many others share my interest in reading this book!
An interview conducted by Beatles historian, Mark Lewisohn with Thelma McGough:
Thelma Pickles Interviewed by Mark Lewisohn | International Beatleweek 2025
The truth about John Lennon’s very first girlfriend, Thelma Pickles
The Case of Thelma Pickles – @get-back-homeward on Tumblr
A photo of the book from Amazon UK:
These personal memoirs of people that had a role to play in the magical story of the Beatles hold a great fascination for me. Their perceptions of these four personalities who in retrospect seemed destined for a magical journey are valuable tools in understanding the story that over 3000 Beatles books cannot capture in totality the complexity (yet ironically also the simplicity) of what happened!
Thank you, Thelma, for your recollections and your memories!
Be healthy and he happy!
Buzz
