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“howard spring”

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  • All the Day Long

    by Howard Spring ...
    Maria Legassick is the youngest of the three daughters of a Cornish vicar, and she tells here the story of what happened, in a swiftly-changing world, to herself, her sisters, and her brilliant, gifted brother—Roger whom she loved too well; Louisa whom she admired but could never love; Bella whom she more and more despised. The book opens as an idyll in a beautiful part of Cornwall, with the ... Read more

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  • Shabby Tiger

    by Howard Spring ...
    “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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  • Rachel Rosing

    by Howard Spring ...
    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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  • I Met A Lady

    by Howard Spring ...
    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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  • My Son, My Son!

    by Howard Spring ...
    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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  • Fame is the Spur

    by Howard Spring ...
    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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  • A Sunset Touch

    by Howard Spring ...
    “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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  • These Lovers Fled Away

    by Howard Spring ...
    These Lovers Fled Away (1955) by Howard Spring is an epic, intergenerational British family saga spanning from the Boer War to World War II. Narrated by Chad Boothroyd, the novel follows the complex, long-lasting romantic entanglements and social changes affecting a group of friends and their families, particularly focusing on his enduring love for the elusive Rose. ... Read more

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  • Winds of the Day

    by Howard Spring ...
    ''Winds of the Day'' by Howard Spring is a fictional autobiography of Alice Openshaw, an indomitable woman who rises from an impoverished, orphaned childhood in Manchester to navigate a changing, class-ridden society across both World Wars. It covers her life from the late Victorian era, focusing on her survival, work as a servant, and eventual finding of peace at a home in Cornwall. Alice ... Read more

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  • Time and the Hour

    by Howard Spring ...
    Beginning just before the outbreak of the First World War, this is the story of the moral values of the age. It is a story of illegitimacy and deception—where a child has to come to terms with discovering who his mother really is. It is a story in which romance is set against the backdrop of the growth of fascism in Europe, where London has become a refuge for persecuted Jews, and where Dunkerley ... Read more

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  • There is No Armour

    by Howard Spring ...
    The theme of this particular book (set around Manchester and Cornwall, as so many of his are) is that there is no armour against fate; and the period it covers was certainly a fateful one, ranging as it does from the close of the Victorian era through two World Wars. It’s told in the first person, and takes the protagonist from a childhood of poverty to the distinction of the Royal Academy. If you ... Read more

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  • Dunkerley's

    by Howard Spring ...
    ''Dunkerley's'' by Howard Spring is about the Dunkerley family, now wealthy from their successful penny journal Hard Facts, as their children come of age amidst family secrets, romance, ambition, and conflict in late 19th-century England, leading to drama and a violent climax, especially focusing on the new London magazine Dunkerley's and its brilliant but troubled editor, Alec Dillworth. It's the ... Read more

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