Jamie Jackson

Nancy Kools and Joey Miller are teenagers, high, in love, and with zero to lose. Acid House is a seismic happening hitting the UK, drawing countless kids to illegal all-night warehouse parties. As the sun bakes down on factories and fields, they dance and get blissed-up to the sound of the second summer of love. But: the raves have been driven underground by the Thatcher Government fuelling a moral majority terrified of their partying children. When Joey discovers who floods Lancaster with Ecstasy, he and Nancy scheme to steal 1,000 of the dancing pills, sell them at the final party, and jet to Ibiza to live off their spoils in the Balearic sun forever. Except: it is not only Nancy and Joey who have plans for the 1,000 pink New Yorker ecstasy pills. Others are coming for them.

When Ole Gunnar Solskjaer returned to Old Trafford as caretaker manager midway through the 2018-19 season, he breathed new life into a team that was drifting. In this new and definitive biography, Jamie Jackson investigates why he was the perfect man for the job to bring back the glory days. After the confusion under David Moyes, the stagnation of Louis van Gaal and the growing trauma under Jose Mourinho, Manchester United were a club increasingly struggling to challenge for major honours, something the fans had been accustomed to during the reign of Sir Alex Ferguson. So when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, a match-winning hero of the Reds' great Treble-winning side returned to Old Trafford on 19 December 2018 as caretaker manager, he was welcomed with open arms. Here was a man who understood what it was that the fans demanded, and he had a plan to give it to them. They went on a record-breaking run of victories that secured him the position on a permanent basis, before old frailties re-emerged, showing the scale of the job he had always dreamed of taking on. During the summer transfer window, he began a dramatic reshaping of the team's personnel to set them up for the 2019-20 season. The Red Apprentice, Jamie Jackson's fascinating biography of Solskjaer, takes the reader back to the Norwegian's early days to discover the making of the man, relives the highlights of a stunning playing career - and that Champions League-clinching goal in 1999 - and explains why he is the natural choice for United in the future.