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  • THE WILLIAM POSTERS TRILOGY
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    THE WILLIAM POSTERS TRILOGY
    ALAN SILLITOE
    The bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner takes his examination of British working-class rebellion into the 1960s.   In his best-known works of fiction, British novelist Alan Sillitoe "powerfully depicted revolt against authority by the young and working class" ( The Washington Post). Both The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner and Saturday Night ...

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  • THE COLLECTED NOVELS VOLUME ONE
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    THE COLLECTED NOVELS VOLUME ONE
    ALAN SILLITOE
    These memorable novels show the range of the bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, "one of the best English writers" ( The New York Times).   British novelist Alan Sillitoe "powerfully depicted revolt against authority by the young and working class" in his best-known works of fiction ( The Washington Post). Both The Loneliness of the Long-Distance R...

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  • THE MICHAEL CULLEN NOVELS
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    THE MICHAEL CULLEN NOVELS
    ALAN SILLITOE
    Three uproarious comic novels from the iconic author of such classics as The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Alan Sillitoe has been hailed as "the most quietly eloquent of his cohort of postwar British novelists" (Jonathan Lethem). Here are three of Sillitoe's finest and funniest, chronicling the adventures of the "happy bastard" Mi...

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  • MOGGERHANGER
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    MOGGERHANGER
    ALAN SILLITOE
    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 ad agency. That is, until the agency fires him. He's not terribly upset though. A...

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  • LIFE GOES ON
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    LIFE GOES ON
    ALAN SILLITOE
    A laugh-out-loud adventure novel starring bestselling author Alan Sillitoe's most outrageous character: the happy bastard Michael Cullen. For most of his life, Michael Cullen was a twenty-two-carat no-good bastard, and he was quite proud of it. But after a series of outlandish criminal adventures revealed the true identity of his father, Michael made the mistake of introducing ...

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  • A START IN LIFE
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    A START IN LIFE
    ALAN SILLITOE
    An outrageously funny novel of adventure, sex, corruption, and crime from one of the greatest British authors of the twentieth century. Michael Cullen is proud to be a bastard. His first memories are of the war, when his mother welcomed every soldier in Britain into her house, and young Michael hid beneath her bed to let the rocking of the springs lull him to sleep. By the time...

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  • RAW MATERIAL
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    RAW MATERIAL
    ALAN SILLITOE
    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 speculation in this inventive and political historical novel. Central to the sto...

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  • COLLECTED POEMS
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    COLLECTED POEMS
    ALAN SILLITOE
    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 between 1950 and 1990. Culled from seven previously published volumes of verse—and including twenty-one newly collected works—Sillitoe emplo...

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  • LEADING THE BLIND
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    LEADING THE BLIND
    ALAN SILLITOE
    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 guidebooks and travelogues in order to recount the pleasures, dangers, traps, and deli...

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  • NEW AND COLLECTED STORIES
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    NEW AND COLLECTED STORIES
    ALAN SILLITOE
    Over forty short stories spanning the career of England's most acclaimed postwar writer—including the iconic " The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner ."   This comprehensive collection of short fiction from bestselling British author Alan Sillitoe mixes aggression with humor, and common working-class men with extraordinary twists of fate. It compiles works selected from the...

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  • LIFE WITHOUT ARMOUR
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    LIFE WITHOUT ARMOUR
    ALAN SILLITOE
    A candid and surprising memoir of the early life of one of England's most acclaimed and enduring post-WWII writers.   Born in 1928 into a poverty-stricken family in working-class Nottingham, bestselling British novelist Alan Sillitoe's childhood was marked by his father's unpredictable and violent rage, as well as a near-certain condemnation to a life of labor on an assembly li...

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  • GADFLY IN RUSSIA
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    GADFLY IN RUSSIA
    ALAN SILLITOE
    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 from England to Russia via Harwich and Finland in his sturdy Peugeot. During his teens, the author had a cartographic fascination with ...

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  • SNOWSTOP
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    SNOWSTOP
    ALAN SILLITOE
    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 England's Lake District, a motley mix of strangers think they have found refuge...

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  • THE LOST FLYING BOAT
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    THE LOST FLYING BOAT
    ALAN SILLITOE
    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 of the Aldebaran, a huge flying boat, sits the monomaniacal Captain Bennett, a ...

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  • HER VICTORY
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    HER VICTORY
    ALAN SILLITOE
    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 to be mad to kill herself for the sake of George. He's a brute, vain and selfi...

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  • TRAVELS IN NIHILON
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    TRAVELS IN NIHILON
    ALAN SILLITOE
    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 guidebook about the peculiar, unexplored land and its all-powerful leader, Pres...

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  • THE WIDOWER'S SON
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    THE WIDOWER'S SON
    ALAN SILLITOE
    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 miner's life, but Charlie never looks back. For twenty-four years, he roams the emp...

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  • THE FLAME OF LIFE
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    THE FLAME OF LIFE
    ALAN SILLITOE
    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 plights and foibles of the Handley family commune, which set up camp at the home of the wealthy Myra Bassingfield. There, painter Albert Ha...

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  • A TREE ON FIRE
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    A TREE ON FIRE
    ALAN SILLITOE
    The second novel in award-winning, bestselling author Alan Sillitoe's William Posters Trilogy is an existential investigation of protest and revolution in 1960s North Africa and England Jewish dilettante Myra Bassingfield returns to England from Gibraltar with her four-week-old son. Frank Dawley, the child's father and the anarchist antihero of The Death of William Posters, has...

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  • THE DEATH OF WILLIAM POSTERS
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    THE DEATH OF WILLIAM POSTERS
    ALAN SILLITOE
    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 in an alienating marriage, and two burdensome kids, Frank is finally free. He has quit his job, burned his possessions, and sold his ca...

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  • KEY TO THE DOOR
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    KEY TO THE DOOR
    ALAN SILLITOE
    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 Sillitoe Key to the Door turns away from the boisterous pursuits of Arthur Seaton made infamous in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, and focuses instead on the quieter rebellions of his older brother, Brian. ...

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