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  • Pasmore

    A Novel

    by David Storey ...
    A teacher oppressed by the futility of everyday life embarks on a dark affair in this extraordinary novel that won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeIn his dreams, Colin Pasmore runs an endless race. No matter how hard he pumps his legs, he loses—and not just to other runners, but to every "dullard and idler" in England. Every morning, he wakes up ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thin-Ice Skater

    A Novel

    by David Storey ...
    A seventeen-year-old is sent to the country to live with his much-older half-brother and falls into an unexpected affair in this novel by Man Booker Prize–winning author David StoreyThe narrator of Storey's eleventh novel is an angst-ridden seventeen-year-old who shares intimate details of his life in the form of memos written to himself. Born in Beverly Hills, California, Richard "Rick" Audlin ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Radcliffe

    A Novel

    by David Storey ...
    Man Booker Prize–winning author David Storey takes us to a crumbling English town where a childhood friendship blossoms into obsessive loveLeonard Radcliffe is the last heir to a proud family name that has nearly been forgotten. All that remains of the Radcliffe legacy is the Place: a ramshackle manor that once loomed over the countryside, but is now hemmed in by public housing and all but shaken ... Read more

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  • As It Happened

    A Novel

    by David Storey ...
    A wry and deeply affecting novel about a man's ruminations on art and death by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of This Sporting LifeMatthew Maddox is an art historian and professor emeritus at the Drayburgh School of Fine Art. Nearing 70, his 3 sons are grown and his ex-wife, Charlotte, has remarried. After a failed suicide attempt in front of a moving train, Maddox attends art therapy classes ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Saville

    by David Storey ...
    Colin Saville grows up in a mining village in South Yorkshire, against the background of war, of an industrialised countryside, of town and coalmine and village. ... Read more

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  • This Sporting Life

    by David Storey ...
    Rugby League football in an industrial northern city circa 1960 is a life of grime, mud, sweat, intrigue and naked ambition. In This Sporting Life, David Storey recounts the fortunes of gladiator hero Arthur Machin from the day of his inclusion in the local team to the match when he begins to feel age creeping up on him. Through Arthur we are taken into his raw, often brutal world of players, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Temporary Life

    A Novel

    by David Storey ...
    An art teacher searches for meaning in a strange town as his wife spirals into madness in this stunning novel from Man Booker Prize–winning author David StoreyColin Freestone had not planned to live in northern England. The people here are so passionate and raw that he does not expect to ever understand them or feel at ease. But when his wife, Yvonne, fell sick, she would only accept psychiatric ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Present Times

    A Novel

    by David Storey ...
    From "the leading novelist of his generation" (the Daily Telegraph)—a story about marriage, family, and 1 man's 2nd chanceAt age 47, former playwright Frank Attercliffe lives with 2 of his 5 children in a 4-bedroom apartment on Walton Lane on the outskirts of an English suburb. For the past 3 years, his wife, Sheila, has been living with Maurice, a car dealer who owns a Rolls-Royce, a Bentley, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Collected Novels Volume Two

    A Serious Man, A Temporary Life, and A Prodigal Child

    by David Storey ...
    Three powerful novels from the Man Booker Prize–winning British novelist of This Sporting Life and "an absorbing writer" ( The New Yorker).The son of a coal miner who went on to play professionally in the rugby league, British author David Storey drew heavily on his own background for his debut novel, This Sporting Life, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award and was made into a film with ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Stinging Delight

    A Memoir

    by David Storey ...
    The third son of a coalminer, David Storey takes us from his tough upbringing in Wakefield, to being 'sold' to Leeds Rugby League Club, to his escape to the Slade School of Art and his life in post-war London. He describes shocking scenes in the seventeen deprived East End schools in which he taught. He documents the childhood death of his eldest brother, addressing much of the memoir to him and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Collected Novels Volume Three

    Thin-Ice Skater, As It Happened, and Present Times

    by David Storey ...
    Three thought-provoking novels from the Man Booker Prize–winning British novelist of This Sporting Life and "an absorbing writer" ( The New Yorker).The son of a coal miner who went on to play professionally in the rugby league, British author David Storey drew heavily on his own background for his debut novel, This Sporting Life, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award and was made into a film ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Prodigal Child

    A Novel

    by David Storey ...
    A novel about family and class restrictions by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of This Sporting Life and SavilleWith 2 rooms downstairs and 3 upstairs, the house at Spinney Moor Road is a real step-up for the Morley family. Arthur Morley is a farmer who frequently comes home drunk, and who often competes with his prudish, penny-pinching wife, Sarah, for the love of their boys, Alan and Bryan. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus