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  • Snowstop

    A Novel

    by 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, but instead discover ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gadfly in Russia

    A Story of Travel, History, People, and Places

    by 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 the Battle of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New and Collected Stories

    by 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 master storyteller's ... Read more

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  • A Start in Life

    A Novel

    by Alan Sillitoe ...
    Series Book 1 - The Michael Cullen Novels
    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 he's eighteen, he's ... Read more

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  • Her Victory

    A Novel

    by 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 RunnerEvery 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 selfish, with a cruel sense ... Read more

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  • The Michael Cullen Novels

    A Start in Life, Life Goes On, and Moggerhanger

    by Alan Sillitoe ...
    Series series The Michael Cullen Novels
    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" Michael Cullen.A Start ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

    by Alan Sillitoe ...
    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 an unrelenting, frost-bitten earth, he wonders why, for whom and for what he is running.A ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The German Numbers Woman

    by Alan Sillitoe ...
    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 world. Laura, his ever-doting wife, is loveliness personified. Things start to change when he meets ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Birthday

    by Alan Sillitoe ...
    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, certainly; wiser – possibly not.Arthur and Brian Seaton, one with an ailing wife, one with an emotional ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Alligator Playground

    by Alan Sillitoe ...
    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; Fitzrovian passion flares; strong men turn to drink. Love, sex, loss, are captured in Mr Sillitoe’s ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Widower's Son

    A Novel

    by 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 warCharlie 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 empire, a king's soldier ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Collected Poems

    by 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 employs wit, humor, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus