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43 produkter
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Häftad, 2006
139 kr
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This cult classic of working class life in post-war Nottingham follows the exploits of rebellious factory worker Arthur Seaton and is introduced by Richard Bradford.Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare in the evenings. A hard-drinking, hard-fighting hooligan, he …
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Häftad, 2007
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
159 kr
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From the author of ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ come stories of hardship and hope in post-war Britain.The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal. As his steady jog-trot rhythm transports him over …
Broken Chariot
Häftad, 1999
177 kr
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A superb creation of love, life and class in the post-war world.When Herbert Thurgarton-Strang was seven, his parents – as loving, as doting as any parents of their generation – took him away from India and left him in a boarding school in England which had everything to recommend it except pity. …
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
E-bok, 2013
79 kr
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This cult classic of working class life in post-war Nottingham follows the exploits of rebellious factory worker Arthur Seaton and is introduced by Richard Bradford.Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare in the evenings. A hard-drinking, hard-fighting hooligan, he …
Travels in Nihilon
A Novel
E-bok, 2016
246 kr
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From one of Britain''s leading writers comes a biting satire about a country founded on Nihilism and a government gone mad Nihilon is a country where honesty is outlawed, drunk driving is mandatory, and nihilism reigns supreme. Five researchers are sent into the midst of this chaos to compile a new …
Alligator Playground
Häftad, 1998
177 kr
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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 and hum; marriages and infidelities tick-tock and tick over; …
German Numbers Woman
Häftad, 2000
190 kr
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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 …
Birthday
Häftad, 2002
177 kr
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The sequel to ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’.‘Birthday’ is the 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 rediscover the Seaton brothers: older, …
Man of his Time
Häftad, 2005
177 kr
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A wonderful historical novel from one of our best loved and most prolific writersAs a young man Ernest Burton was a bold and reckless journeyman blacksmith, seducing all young girls he comes across. We watch him grow to become a master Blacksmith, and a tyrannical father of eight who refuses even …
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
E-bok, 2013
79 kr
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From the author of `Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ come stories of hardship and hope in post-war Britain.The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal. As his steady jog-trot rhythm transports him over …
Birthday
E-bok, 2010
71 kr
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The sequel to `Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’.`Birthday’ is the 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 rediscover the Seaton brothers: older, …
Alligator Playground
E-bok, 2010
96 kr
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From one of England’s greatest living writers comes a 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 and hum; marriages and infidelities tick-tock and tick over; …
German Numbers Woman
E-bok, 2010
102 kr
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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 …
Man of his Time
E-bok, 2013
96 kr
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A wonderful historical novel from one of our best loved and most prolific writersAs a young man Ernest Burton was a bold and reckless journeyman blacksmith, seducing all young girls he comes across. We watch him grow to become a master Blacksmith, and a tyrannical father of eight who refuses even …
Selected Poems Chosen by Ruth Fainlight
Av Alan Sillitoe, Ruth Fainlight
Häftad, 2020
175 kr
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Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010) was an award-winning poet and one of the leading British novelists of the twentieth century. He wrote more than fifty books, establishing an enduring critical and popular success with his 1958 novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, which set a new direction in writing …
Flame of Life
A Novel
E-bok, 2016
241 kr
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A portrait of individual and communal struggles to maintain authenticity and revolutionary fervor in 1960s England from award-winning, bestselling author Alan SillitoeThe final installment of the William Posters Trilogy revolves around the plights and foibles of the Handley family commune, which …
Moggerhanger
A Novel
E-bok, 2016
263 kr
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A madcap, bawdy tale about an ordinary man who goes to work for a racketeer and has the adventure of a lifetime: the last novel by an iconic British writer. Michael Cullen, from Nottingham, has a shady past, but nearing his forties, he''s settled down, married a doctor, and started working for an …
Tree on Fire
A Novel
E-bok, 2016
209 kr
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The second novel in award-winning, bestselling author Alan Sillitoe''s William Posters Trilogyis an existential investigation of protest and revolution in 1960s North Africa and EnglandJewish dilettante Myra Bassingfield returns to England from Gibraltar with her four-week-old son. Frank Dawley, …
Death of William Posters
A Novel
E-bok, 2016
213 kr
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A sociopolitical misadventure from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance RunnerFrank Dawley is a working-class escapee. After twelve years of spiritual nullification at a factory in Nottingham, five years in an alienating marriage, and two burdensome kids, …
Key to the Door
A Novel
E-bok, 2016
213 kr
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An existential saga of working-class life in a British factory town and military service in the torrid jungles of the Far East from award-winning, bestselling author Alan SillitoeKey to the Door turns away from the boisterous pursuits of Arthur Seaton made infamous in Saturday Night and Sunday …
Widower's Son
A Novel
E-bok, 2016
169 kr
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Raised by a career soldier, a working class Englishman tries to find his place—both in and out of uniform—in this compelling novel of love and war Charlie Scorton sees his best friend killed beside him in the mine, and resolves to join the army. His father throws him out for deserting the coal …
Her Victory
A Novel
E-bok, 2016
169 kr
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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 suicide too, but she doesn’t see the point. A woman would have …
Lost Flying Boat
A Novel
E-bok, 2016
166 kr
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A post-WWII adventure from the bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner. A top-secret mission sends a crew of Royal Air Force veterans from South Africa to the subarctic Kerguelen Islands in this suspense-packed tale of lawlessness, piracy, obsession, and greed. At the helm …
Snowstop
A Novel
E-bok, 2016
166 kr
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A gripping thriller set among Britain''s snowy peaks from the bestselling author of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Suspense, secrets, conspiracy, and entrapment come to a head in this dark allegory of the modern postwar condition. Snowbound in the remote White Cavalier Hotel in the mountains of …
Raw Material
A Family Biography
E-bok, 2016
241 kr
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This fusion of novel and memoir from a bestselling British author chronicles the destructive effects of WWI on two working-class families in Nottingham. An advocate for ordinary people, Alan Sillitoe combines family memoir with exhaustive research on military records, and fuses them with artistic …
Leading the Blind
A Century of Guide Book Travel
E-bok, 2016
150 kr
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A journey into nineteenth-century travel guides to the UK, Europe, and Soviet Union as researched and written by one of England''s most distinguished authors. In this quirky and illuminating social history, bestselling British author Alan Sillitoe culls fascinating details from Victorian-era …
