Alan Sillitoe: 29 books
Life Without Armour
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
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...
by Alan Sillitoe
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Nine classic short stories portraying the isolation, criminality, morality, and rebellion of the working class from award-winning, bestselling author Alan Sillitoe
The titular story follows the internal decisions and external oppressions of a seventeen-year-old inmate in a juvenile detention...
Gadfly in Russia
A Story of Travel, History, People, and Places
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
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...
A Start in Life
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
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...
Raw Material
A Family Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
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...
A Tree on Fire
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
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...
by Alan Sillitoe
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
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...
The Michael Cullen Novels
A Start in Life, Life Goes On, and Moggerhanger
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
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...
Leading the Blind
A Century of Guide Book Travel
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
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...
The Collected Novels Volume One
Her Victory, The Widower’s Son, and Travels in Nihilon
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
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...
The Collected Novels Volume Two
The Broken Chariot, The German Numbers Woman, and The Lost Flying Boat
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
These later novels from the bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, “one of the best English writers,” reflect his imaginative scope (The New York Times).
British novelist Alan Sillitoe “powerfully depicted revolt against authority by the young and working class”...
The William Posters Trilogy
The Death of William Posters, A Tree on Fire, and The Flame of Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
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...
Key to the Door
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
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...
by Alan Sillitoe
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Alan Sillitoe’s bestselling debut novel about debauchery, infidelity . . . and the morning after
Arthur Seaton, a ladies’ man and factory-worker extraordinaire, has just downed seven gins and eleven pints at his local pub. Thoroughly smashed, he proceeds to tumble down an entire flight...