Product Description: This study, originally published in 1987, addresses the question of small firm performance. Drawing on an extensive database containing financial, employment and ownership data for several thousand small firms, the book examines whether small firms do actually provide jobs, whether they grow and why small firms fail...read more

Product Description: A rugby player finds fame and fortune in a bleak mining town, but he cannot outrun the emptiness he feels inside in Man Booker Prize-winning author David Storey's seminal first novel On Christmas Eve, Arthur breaks his two front teeth...read more

'This is the story of Colin Saville, a miner's son, and his growth from the 1930s on, his rise in the world by way of grammar school and college. At first there is triumph in this, not least for the father who had spurred him on, but later "alienated from his class, and with nowhere yet to go" Colin finds himself spiritually destitute, bitter, still held against his will in the place that made him . . . A feast of a book . . . it engenders remarkable tension because this self-effacing author, before removing himself from the book, seems to enter organically into his characters, writing from the gut of their experience.' - Sunday Telegraph David Storey's Booker Prize winner Saville (1976) - called 'the best of all the Bookers' by a leading British critic - returns to print in the United States for the first time in decades in this new edition, which includes a new foreword by the author and the original dust jacket art by Tom Adams. Acclaimed in both England and America as one of the leading authors of his generation, Storey won numerous major awards for his works during the 1960s and 70s, but his works have fallen into neglect in the United States in recent years. Valancourt Books has also republished Storey's Radcliffe and Pasmore, with the aim of enabling American readers to rediscover this important and immensely talented author. 'Reading this magnificent book is like drinking pure spring water from cupped hands. It has no false notes, no heaviness of emphasis, no editorial manipulations of plot to prove a point. One becomes so totally involved in the lives of these people that their every word and action becomes charged with meaning.... Reminiscent of a nineteenth-century classic.' - Jeremy Brooks, Sunday Times 'Mesmerically readable, Saville is a revelation. It is alive with light and air and a kind of perpetual motion.' - Michael Ratcliffe, The Times 'Again and again I found myself paying Storey the reader's finest compliment of saying, "This is the way it has to be, because this is the way it really is." If you are looking for an intellectual and artistic honesty, a patient thoughtfulness and detailed insight into other lives, a controlled drama of ordinary and extraordinary people, this novel will delight and move you.' - C.J. Driver, The Guardian 'Saville is not one word too long. It was worth the ten years it took to write for the result of this industry is a clarity of style and a purity of design. An epic narrative, crowded, naturalistic and riveting.' - Valerie Jenkins, Evening Standard 'Not once during its 506 pages did the familiar man with the stop-watch intervene to challenge my total immersion in the life of Colin Saville.' - David Caute, New Statesman 'This minutely focused novel of childhood and growth is David Storey's most ambitious book so far. His previous novels seem in retrospect to be mere ranging shots or flanking attacks: this is the assault on the stronghold. . . . a major achievement.' - Eric Korn, Times Literary Supplement 'No one has written of this classic dilemma with such detail and penetration as we find in Saville, nor has any previous novel so totally described a working-class family in transition during the real revolution of the forties and fifties.' - Ronald Blythe, The Listener 'A marvellous evocation of place and character . . . this is a book made more than usually remarkable by its intensity of feeling.' - Daily Telegraph

Product Description: One works. One looks around. One meets people. But very little communication takes place . . . That is the nature of this little island.As five apparently unrelated characters meet in a seemingly insignificant garden, the autumnal sun shines overhead and everybody waits for rain...read more

Product Description: 'An astonishing achievement . . . A major work of art . . . Radcliffe establishes David Storey as the leading novelist of his generation.' - Daily Telegraph 'Storey's fiction ought to . . . secure his reputation as one of the most original writers of his generation...read more

Product Description: This book addresses the lack of academic and practical research into corporate venturing by examining the role of this activity as both a form of large firm-small firm collaboration and as an alternative source of equity finance for small firms...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: A member of the generation of artists who emerged from the Slade School of Art in London after World War II, Philip Sutton is among the most accomplished contemporary British artists. In this finely designed survey, art critic Simon Tait traces Sutton’s inspiring rise from humble beginnings to successful artist, exploring the importance of Sutton’s family and home life in the formation of his creative vision...read more

Product Description:  Territory provides a comprehensive introduction to theories of territoriality and the geographical outcomes of territorial control.  It explores both macro-scale territoriality (e.g. the emergence of nations and state formation) and micro-scale territoriality (e...read more

Product Description: Getting ahead in business and building a career are more difficult than ever. The Self-Development for Success Series continues with four new titles, each aimed at improving key professional skills. The books allow employees to find out how good they are, where there is room for development, and ways in which they can improve...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "David Storey is a writer who genuinely extends the territory of drama"--GuardianThe Changing Room: "It's about exactly what it is: Storey offers us, with an unforced tenderness, the shifting moods of everyday experience…the scene is busy, purposeful and exhilerating...read more

Product Description: "David Storey is a writer who genuinely extends the territory of drama" (Guardian)

Product Description: Any successful business depends on the quality of its management team. But for a very small firm the relationship between management and economic performance is often more visible. Understanding the workings of this relationship can be difficult, particularly when studying small firms that have become highly successful in a short space of time, so developing more complex management structures...read more

Product Description: Small businesses in rural areas - especially the increasing number engaged in non-agricultural activities - have been largely neglected by researchers. Yet, as in other areas, small businesses in rural areas have become more central to the economy since 1980...read more

Product Description: "David Storey is a writer who genuinely extends the territory of drama" (Guardian)The Contractor: "A subtle and poetic parable about the nature and joy of skilled work, the meaning of community and the effect of its loss" (Observer); Home: "about the solitude and dislocation of madness and…the decline of Britain itself…part of the play's appeal is that Storey leaves it to us to draw our own conclusions…a play that contains within itself the still, sad music of humanity...read more

Three plays tell the stories of four people who meet at a mental institution, a British rugby team in their locker room, and a bizarre family

Product Description: First U.K. edition