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Heaven Lies About Us - A Fragment of Infancy

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"Heaven Lies About Us" recounts Spring's childhood in Cardiff during the closing years of the 19th century. He grew up in an impoverished but loving family and left school at age 12 to support them after his father's death. The path of a writer: Spring's memoir details his humble beginnings working as an errand boy for a newspaper. This experience was his first step into the world of journalism ... Read more

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"Heaven Lies About Us" recounts Spring's childhood in Cardiff during the closing years of the 19th century. He grew up in an impoverished but loving family and left school at age 12 to support them after his father's death. The path of a writer: Spring's memoir details his humble beginnings working as an errand boy for a newspaper. This experience was his first step into the world of journalism
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Time and the Hour

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by Howard Spring, Liam Alcott ...

In "Time and the Hour," Howard Spring intricately weaves a narrative that explores the profound themes of time, destiny, and the human condition within the backdrop of post-World War I England. The novel employs a rich, evocative prose style, characterized by Spring's meticulous attention to detail and deep psychological insight into his characters' lives. Set against a rapidly changing social ... Read more

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In "Time and the Hour," Howard Spring intricately weaves a narrative that explores the profound themes of time, destiny, and the human condition within the backdrop of post-World War I England. The novel employs a rich, evocative prose style, characterized by Spring's meticulous attention to detail and deep psychological insight into his characters' lives. Set against a rapidly changing social
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Fame is the Spur

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by Howard Spring, Owen Bradshaw ...

In "Fame is the Spur," Howard Spring crafts a sweeping narrative that examines the tumultuous rise and fall of an aspiring politician, exploring themes of ambition, fame, and the moral compromises often encountered on the path to success. The novel is structured in a highly engaging, almost episodic style, rich with character development and societal insights that reflect the shifting landscape of ... Read more

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In "Fame is the Spur," Howard Spring crafts a sweeping narrative that examines the tumultuous rise and fall of an aspiring politician, exploring themes of ambition, fame, and the moral compromises often encountered on the path to success. The novel is structured in a highly engaging, almost episodic style, rich with character development and societal insights that reflect the shifting landscape of
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Rachel Rosing

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Rachel Rosing by Howard Spring is about the ambitious, beautiful, and calculating social climber Rachel Rosing, focusing on her pursuit of fame and fortune as an actress, depicting her ruthless ascent through marriage and career. But will this be met with eventual downfall? Can she lose everything, including her beauty, and be left with only an empty life? ... Read more

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Rachel Rosing by Howard Spring is about the ambitious, beautiful, and calculating social climber Rachel Rosing, focusing on her pursuit of fame and fortune as an actress, depicting her ruthless ascent through marriage and career. But will this be met with eventual downfall? Can she lose everything, including her beauty, and be left with only an empty life?
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Shabby Tiger

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“Shabby Tiger” by Howard Spring is about the gritty, bohemian life in 1930s Manchester, focusing on young, rebellious artist Nick Faunt and his unconventional relationships, particularly with the forthright Anna Fitzgerald, exploring themes of art, class, love, and survival amidst a colorful cast of characters like bookie Piggie White and social climber Rachel Rosing. It details their struggles to ... Read more

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“Shabby Tiger” by Howard Spring is about the gritty, bohemian life in 1930s Manchester, focusing on young, rebellious artist Nick Faunt and his unconventional relationships, particularly with the forthright Anna Fitzgerald, exploring themes of art, class, love, and survival amidst a colorful cast of characters like bookie Piggie White and social climber Rachel Rosing. It details their struggles to
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I Met A Lady

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When he was a schoolboy George Ledra watched the recruits of World War I marching through the Manchester streets. His account of his own life; which makes this novel, concludes with the ending of the second war. This is a stretch of time that Howard Spring has often written about—a slice of his own days; and how people fared in the swiftly-changing political and social scene of those three decades ... Read more

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When he was a schoolboy George Ledra watched the recruits of World War I marching through the Manchester streets. His account of his own life; which makes this novel, concludes with the ending of the second war. This is a stretch of time that Howard Spring has often written about—a slice of his own days; and how people fared in the swiftly-changing political and social scene of those three decades
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Fame is the Spur

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When they buried the Old Warrior there was only one small wreath to go on the coffin... John Hamer Shawcross never forgot that moment.Hamer Shawcross is born into a poor but aspirational working-class family in Manchester. Studious and hard-working, he becomes a socialist activist, goes into politics and rises to becomes part of the privileged upper classes he began by opposing. Hamer's trajectory ... Read more

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When they buried the Old Warrior there was only one small wreath to go on the coffin... John Hamer Shawcross never forgot that moment.Hamer Shawcross is born into a poor but aspirational working-class family in Manchester. Studious and hard-working, he becomes a socialist activist, goes into politics and rises to becomes part of the privileged upper classes he began by opposing. Hamer's trajectory
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My Son, My Son!

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The story of William Essex, who rose from humble beginnings to become a successful dramatist and novelist, and his friend Dermot O'Riordon, a fervent Irish patriot and founder of a great London furnishing house; and their sons, Oliver Essex and Rory O'Riordon. Plus some other assorted characters, from old Mr Moscrop and his daughter Nellie, and Maeve O'Riordon. Those boys grow up in friendship, ... Read more

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The story of William Essex, who rose from humble beginnings to become a successful dramatist and novelist, and his friend Dermot O'Riordon, a fervent Irish patriot and founder of a great London furnishing house; and their sons, Oliver Essex and Rory O'Riordon. Plus some other assorted characters, from old Mr Moscrop and his daughter Nellie, and Maeve O'Riordon. Those boys grow up in friendship,
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Hard Facts

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In a celebrated essay, Macaulay sums up Bacon's career as a "chequered spectacle of so much glory and so much shame." The words may fitly enough be applied not only to Bacon's life but to most men's lives and to most large experiments of human action. In 1942 I began to write a novel whose purpose was to trace the course of one such experiment from its beginnings in the eighties of last century up ... Read more

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In a celebrated essay, Macaulay sums up Bacon's career as a "chequered spectacle of so much glory and so much shame." The words may fitly enough be applied not only to Bacon's life but to most men's lives and to most large experiments of human action. In 1942 I began to write a novel whose purpose was to trace the course of one such experiment from its beginnings in the eighties of last century up
... Read more
A Sunset Touch

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“A Sunset Touch” by Howard Spring is about Roger Menheniot, a middle-aged, reclusive London bank clerk who dreams of escaping his dull life by buying a house in his ancestral Cornwall, a dream unexpectedly fulfilled after meeting a distant American cousin during WWII, leading him to discover love, lust, and complex local people as his life transforms from drab to passionate and complicated. ... Read more

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“A Sunset Touch” by Howard Spring is about Roger Menheniot, a middle-aged, reclusive London bank clerk who dreams of escaping his dull life by buying a house in his ancestral Cornwall, a dream unexpectedly fulfilled after meeting a distant American cousin during WWII, leading him to discover love, lust, and complex local people as his life transforms from drab to passionate and complicated.
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The Houses in Between

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IF my aunt, Sarah Undridge, had lived until today she would have been a hundred years old. I was at a small party given for her ninety-ninth birthday, and she was spry enough then. There was a sense of festivity. All of us who were present were ourselves “getting on,” as they say. Certainly, more years were behind us than we could expect to find before us, and I suppose it was this, as much as ... Read more

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IF my aunt, Sarah Undridge, had lived until today she would have been a hundred years old. I was at a small party given for her ninety-ninth birthday, and she was spry enough then. There was a sense of festivity. All of us who were present were ourselves “getting on,” as they say. Certainly, more years were behind us than we could expect to find before us, and I suppose it was this, as much as
... Read more
My Son, My Son

by Howard Spring ...

What a place it was, that dark little house that was two rooms up and two down... I don't remember to this day where we all slept, though there was a funeral now and then to thin us out.This is the powerful story of two hard-driven men – one a celebrated English novelist, the other a successful Irish entrepreneur – and of their sons, in whom are invested all their fathers' hopes and ambitions. ... Read more

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What a place it was, that dark little house that was two rooms up and two down... I don't remember to this day where we all slept, though there was a funeral now and then to thin us out.This is the powerful story of two hard-driven men – one a celebrated English novelist, the other a successful Irish entrepreneur – and of their sons, in whom are invested all their fathers' hopes and ambitions.
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