Phil Lowe’s Derby and Derbyshire based Scouting For Monty Python is a fond memoir of being coerced into joining the Wolf Cubs and the Boy Scouts during the 1960s and 1970s. It is written with a great deal of nostalgic humour and plenty of tongue-in-cheek, sometimes quite surreal, storytelling as we follow the wimpy adventures of Figgy Lowe- a shy boy with sticky out ears - whose idea of adventure is planting an apple pip on a sports field and hoping it will grow into a tree – by the next day. Laugh along as you read about his bold invites into Scouting; invites that included going abseiling, canoeing, wild swimming, hill running or climbing a mountain but instead, make him run for the hills in abject terror.

Scouting For Monty Python is light-hearted memoir written with a great deal of sometimes irreverent humour and fine detail about an East Midlands based working class life for Phil Lowe as a boy and teenager in the 1960s and 1970s.