A story of love and romance between two lost people in 1950s Britain, from the author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Every morning Pam decides to leave George. Somehow she never quite gets around to it. She’s flirted with...
A suspense novel of drugs, love, cyphers, and sailors from the bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner.
A blind Royal Air Force veteran becomes entangled in a high-seas heroin heist in this gripping adventure from one of...
This memoir and literary travelogue from one of the UK’s most esteemed novelists offers rare insight into Cold War-era Russia.
In 1967, seeking an escape from his writing life, bestselling British novelist Alan Sillitoe embarks on a road trip...
A portrait of individual and communal struggles to maintain authenticity and revolutionary fervor in 1960s England from award-winning, bestselling author Alan Sillitoe
The final installment of the William Posters Trilogy revolves around the...
A sociopolitical misadventure from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Frank Dawley is a working-class escapee. After twelve years of spiritual nullification at a factory in Nottingham, five years...
A sweeping collection of poetry from one of Great Britain’s most celebrated postwar writers.
Bestselling British novelist Alan Sillitoe delves into the profound and personal world of poetry in this collection of two hundred poems written...
This postwar British coming-of-age novel questions the foundations of society and self.
Class and identity are lifelong struggles for Herbert Thurgarton-Strang, who was born in India but sent away at age seven to a boarding school in England. As...
The long-anticipated sequel to Alan Sillitoe’s bestselling classic 1950s novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Arthur and Brian Seaton are heading back to their hometown, Nottingham, some forty-odd years after the close of Saturday Night and...
From one of England’s greatest living writers comes a new collection of exquisitely formed stories set in life’s great playground.
Relationships — clandestine and legitimate — are the theme: boorish chaps and their stalwart women ululate...
For Colm Tóibín and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing — there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best 200 novels written since 1950, the editors...