Product Description: Never before published, Moggerhanger is the last novel written by iconic British writer Alan Sillitoe before his death in 2010. Originally intended as the third part in a trilogy, the first two of which, A Start in Life and Life Goes On, were published in England but not in America, Moggerhanger stands on its own as the last act in an amazing writer’s career, a madcap, bawdy, boisterous, and above all comic novel written in a masterly, unflinching hand, Sillitoe’s Don Quixote...read more

Depicts the escapades of an independent English workingman who embraces life at its fullest

Product Description: In an attempt to take a break from his writing career, in 1967 Alan Sillitoe set off in a boxy blue Peugeot from Germany towards the then USSR. In Leningrad, despite his desire to travel alone, he was provided with an official escort in the form of George Andjaparidze, who was to become a fellow journeyman and friend...read more

Product Description: This in an introductory undergraduate text providing a comparative guide to the historical development of Western capitalism and modernity. It is wide ranging in its coverage of theoretical debates, and rich in empirical detail.

Product Description: Birthday is the long-awaited sequel to Alan Sillitoe's classic novel of the 1950s, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Four decades on from the novel which was at the forefront of the new wave of British Literature, we re-discover the Seaton brothers: older, cetainly; wiser - possibly not...read more

The author of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner presents more than forty pieces of short fiction encompassing the author's entire career, mostly celebrating working class life in America. Reprint.

Alan Sillitoe is renowned for his working class roots and his powerful, poignant, yet unsentimental prose. In this collection of essays, Sillitoe tackles a variety of subjects, ranging from art and literary criticism to travel, history and the personal.

Product Description: Guide books led the traveller in the 19th century, giving the latest information on travelling conditions as well as instructing on the places to visit. Murray and Baedekers guides, as well as covering all parts of Europe, featured Peking, Canada, the United States, Japan and New Zealand...read more

A top-rate novel of drugs, love and treachery from an author at the height of his powers. Blind Howard, an ex-RAF veteran, possesses an acute sense of awareness, and can see almost better than the sighted. Morse code patterns his universe and keeps his mind tuned sharp to the big and sometimes bad world. Laura, his ever-doting wife, is loveliness personified. Things start to change when he meets the nefarious Richard. Morse is the common denominator of the alliance, but before long Howard's world of dots and dashes, dits and dahs takes on new darker horizons when he clicks into a drugs racket which means leaving his caring wife for a wild voyage in search of a woman whose voice he has fallen in love with; and a sea-journey with maverick sailors on a heroin heist. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A superb creation of love, life and class in the post-war world. When Herbert Thurgarton-Strang was seven, his parents took him away from India and left him in a boarding school in England which had everything to recommend it except pity...read more

Product Description: An account of the physical and mental maturing of the English novelist Alan Sillitoe, author of "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner".

Gathers thirty-eight stories from each period of the author's career, including 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner'

In the title story of this collection of eight short stories a young delinquent uses a cross-country race to show his defiance of all authority

A growing realization of the differences in family life and social standing punctuates the sometimes rocky friendship shared over one summer by Ali and Simone

Two years after World War II, an RAF bomber crew regroups for a seemingly ordinary commercial mission that turns out to be a dangerous treasure hunt led by the unstable Captain Bennett

Two lonely, middle-aged people, both of whom are solitary and scarred by their pasts, move toward each other--in search of love and happiness and of victory over their pasts

Product Description: NY 1977-lst (stated) Harper. Fine in fine DJ.