Stanley Middleton was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire in 1919. He published his first novel, A Short Answer, in 1958 and went on to publish 45 novels in a career spanning fifty years. He was joint winner of the Booker Prize in 1974 with Holiday. Stanley Middleton died in July 2009.

"Middleton's use of dialogue is as stylised in it's own way as Hemingway's.he is a novelist who asks you to think as well as feel. There is a stoicism to Middleton's work. He shrinks from nothing." The Scotsman "Stanley Middleton writes so well about the concerns of middle-class England" The Express "Middleton's latest novel is nevertheless an illuminating examinatio n of middle class mores. Small Change also offers an insight into the mind of the kind of fortysomething over-acheiver who thought he was indestructible - but who gradually faces up to his own mortality." Nottingham Evening Post

Stanley Middleton was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire in 1919. He published his first novel, A Short Answer, in 1958 and went on to publish 45 novels in a career spanning fifty years. He was joint winner of the Booker Prize in 1974 with Holiday. Stanley Middleton died in July 2009.

"Middleton's use of dialogue is as stylised in it's own way as Hemingway's.he is a novelist who asks you to think as well as feel. There is a stoicism to Middleton's work. He shrinks from nothing." The Scotsman "Stanley Middleton writes so well about the concerns of middle-class England" The Express "Middleton's latest novel is nevertheless an illuminating examinatio n of middle class mores. Small Change also offers an insight into the mind of the kind of fortysomething over-acheiver who thought he was indestructible - but who gradually faces up to his own mortality." Nottingham Evening Post