It is a blunt assault on multi-culturalism seen through the prism of his experience of immigration in the town of Dewsbury in West Yorkshire.
The book's paperbook version sold out in six weeks, according to a HoldTheFrontPage report, but it is available for download on Kindle.
Lockwood refers to his book as a "hard-hitting chronicle of the massive social changes in the district" and what he describes as "20 years of failed multi-culturalism."
He launched an independent weekly title, The Press in Dewsbury, in March 2002 in competition to the Dewsbury Reporter and Batley News, which he used to edit.
Many of the book's topics were aired when Lockwood was sued for libel by Dewsbury's former MP and Labour minister, Shahid Malik. A two-week trial ended in a hung jury and Malik then dropped the action after reaching an out-of-court settlement with Lockwood and a Tory councillor.
Lockwood said: "We haven't heard a negative word from a single person who has looked beyond the title and actually read the book. No fatwas, no boycotts of the business."
On the Amazon site, there are currently eight reviews, all of them warmly praising Lockwood's book.
Lockwood says he still has copies of the book available from his own publishing offices in Dewsbury.
Sources: HoldTheFrontPage/Amazon reviews/Yorkshire Evening Post
The book's paperbook version sold out in six weeks, according to a HoldTheFrontPage report, but it is available for download on Kindle.
Lockwood refers to his book as a "hard-hitting chronicle of the massive social changes in the district" and what he describes as "20 years of failed multi-culturalism."
He launched an independent weekly title, The Press in Dewsbury, in March 2002 in competition to the Dewsbury Reporter and Batley News, which he used to edit.
Many of the book's topics were aired when Lockwood was sued for libel by Dewsbury's former MP and Labour minister, Shahid Malik. A two-week trial ended in a hung jury and Malik then dropped the action after reaching an out-of-court settlement with Lockwood and a Tory councillor.
Lockwood said: "We haven't heard a negative word from a single person who has looked beyond the title and actually read the book. No fatwas, no boycotts of the business."
On the Amazon site, there are currently eight reviews, all of them warmly praising Lockwood's book.
Lockwood says he still has copies of the book available from his own publishing offices in Dewsbury.
Sources: HoldTheFrontPage/Amazon reviews/Yorkshire Evening Post
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