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  • Hangover Square

    by Patrick Hamilton, J. B. Priestly ...
    A pitch-black comedy set in London overshadowed by the looming threat of the Second World War, Patrick Hamilton's Hangover Square. London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation. Netta is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in a drunken hell, except in his 'dead' moments, when something goes click in ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hangover Square

    by Patrick Hamilton ...
    Dark and witty and one of Patrick Hamilton's best novels.Set against the backdrop of the days preceding Britain declaring war on Germany, George Harvey Bone, a lonely borderline alcoholic who suffers from a split personality, is obsessed with gaining the affections of Netta, a failed actress and one of George's circle of "friends" with whom he drinks. Netta is repelled by George but, being greedy ... Read more

    $2.50 CAD

  • The Slaves of Solitude

    by Patrick Hamilton, Nicholas Wright ...
    Series series NHB Modern Plays
    'I don't know how I became so filled with hate. I find it shocking that I did. Somebody said to me that war affects us in all kinds of ways, and that drinking is only one of them. Perhaps hating people is another. Perhaps sex is too.'1943, Henley-on-Thames. Miss Roach is forced by the war to flee London for the Rosamund Tea Rooms boarding house, a place as grey and lonely as its residents. From ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rope

    A One-Room Psychological Thriller of Murder, Class Privilege, and Drawing-Room Suspense

    by Patrick Hamilton ...
    Patrick Hamilton's *Rope* is a taut psychological thriller and a notable experiment in theatrical suspense. Set largely in a single room during the aftermath of a murder, the play follows two privileged young men who conceal their victim's body in a chest while entertaining guests above it. Hamilton gradually transforms ordinary conversation, social ritual, and comic unease into mechanisms of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Craven House

    by Patrick Hamilton ...
    'All his novels are terrific' Sarah WatersPatrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell.In Craven House, among the shifting, uncertain world of the English boarding house, with its sad population of the shabby genteel on the way down - and the eternal optimists who would never get up or on - the young Patrick Hamilton, with ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Gorse Trilogy

    by Patrick Hamilton ...
    'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters'If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man' Nick HornbyPatrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Impromptu in Moribundia

    by Patrick Hamilton ...
    'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters'If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man' Nick HornbyPatrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Monday Morning

    by Patrick Hamilton ...
    'If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man' Nick Hornby'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah WatersPatrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Twopence Coloured

    by Patrick Hamilton ...
    'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters'If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man' Nick HornbyPatrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Rope. Illustrated

    by Patrick Hamilton ...
    Rope by Patrick Hamilton is a chilling and suspenseful stage play that explores the psychology of murder, moral arrogance, and the illusion of intellectual superiority. Inspired by the infamous Leopold and Loeb case, the play centers on two young men who strangle a fellow student simply to prove their belief in their own intellectual dominance—and then host a dinner party with the victim’s body ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • Forgive Me, Sister

    by Patrick Hamilton Walsh ...
    “If it’s time for women to rule the world again, why are you telling this to me, a twenty-eight-year-old man?” Richard asked. Stopping in her tracks and spinning around, she looked Richard dead in the eye as she said, “Because of that. Because you are a twenty-eight-year-old man.” The soft look had dropped from her face as she scolded Richard. Forgive Me, Sister is the story of Richard, a guy who ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    The Gorse Trilogy

    by Patrick Hamilton ...

    Unabridged

    'I recommend Hamilton at every opportunity, because he was such a wonderful writer and yet is rather under-read today. All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters'If you were looking to fly from Dickens to Martin Amis with just one overnight stop, then Hamilton is your man' Nick HornbyPatrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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