Alan Sillitoe

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1959
  • Latest Book:
    August 2016
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Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

    Alan Sillitoe’s bestselling debut novel about debauchery, infidelity . . . and the morning after Arthur Seaton, a ladies’ man and factory-worker extraordinaire, has just downed seven gins and eleven pints at his local pub. Thorough...

  • The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner

    Nine classic short stories portraying the isolation, criminality, morality, and rebellion of the working class from award-winning, bestselling author Alan Sillitoe The titular story follows the internal decisions and external oppressions of a sevente...

  • A Start in Life

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    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...

  • The Second Chance and Other Stories

  • The Lost Flying Boat

    A post-WWII adventure from the bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner.   A top-secret mission sends a crew of Royal Air Force veterans from South Africa to the subarctic Kerguelen Islands in this suspense-packed tale of...

  • Out of the Whirlpool

  • Key to the Door

    An existential saga of working-class life in a British factory town and military service in the torrid jungles of the Far East from award-winning, bestselling author Alan SillitoeKey to the Door turns away from the boisterous pursuits of Arthur Seato...

  • The Open Door

    "An ambiguous tale that verges on dark comedy. . . . With skill and subtlety, the novel hints that a whole society might labor under an illusion of liberty."--"The Economist"

    When her partner disappears, a young woman drifts towards Open Door, a...

  • Last Loves



  • Collected Stories

  • Alligator Playground

  • The German Numbers Woman

    A suspense novel of drugs, love, cyphers, and sailors from the bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner.   A blind Royal Air Force veteran becomes entangled in a high-seas heroin heist in this gripping adventure from one ...

  • A Flight of Arrows

    Alan Sillitoe is renowned for his working class roots and his powerful, poignant yet unsentimental prose. He is acclaimed for his gifts of penetrating observation and evocative detail ( There are few writers around who can rival Sillitoe when it come...

  • New and Collected Stories

    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 ...

  • The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

    Nine classic short stories portraying the isolation, criminality, morality, and rebellion of the working class from award-winning, bestselling author Alan Sillitoe The titular story follows the internal decisions and external oppressions of a sevente...

  • A Man of his Time

    A working-class family saga set in rural England from the bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner.   In 1887, Ernest Burton is a robust twenty-one-year-old who sets off to Wales in his best suit in order to work at his b...

  • The Death of William Posters

    A sociopolitical misadventure from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner Frank Dawley is a working-class escapee. After twelve years of spiritual nullification at a factory in Nottingham, five years in an...

  • The Flame of Life

    A portrait of individual and communal struggles to maintain authenticity and revolutionary fervor in 1960s England from award-winning, bestselling author Alan Sillitoe The final installment of the William Posters Trilogy revolves around the plights a...

  • A Tree on Fire

    The second novel in award-winning, bestselling author Alan Sillitoe’s William Posters Trilogyis an existential investigation of protest and revolution in 1960s North Africa and England Jewish dilettante Myra Bassingfield returns to England from Gib...



  • Her Victory

    A story of love and romance between two lost people in 1950s Britain   Every 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 b...

  • Moggerhanger

    Never before published, "Moggerhanger" is the last novel written by iconic British writer Alan Sillitoe before his death in 2010. Originally intended as the third part in a trilogy, the first two of which, "A Start in Life" and "Life Goes On," were...

  • Travels in Nihilon

    From one of Britain’s leading writers comes a biting satire about a country founded on Nihilism and a government gone mad   Nihilon is a country where honesty is outlawed, drunk driving is mandatory, and nihilism reigns supreme. Five researche...

  • The Widower's Son

    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 war   Charlie Scorton sees his best friend killed beside him in the mine, and resolves to join t...

  • Snowstop

    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. Snowbou...

  • Life Without Armour

  • Raw Material

    This fusion of novel and memoir from a bestselling British author chronicles the destructive effects of WWI on two working-class families in Nottingham.   An advocate for ordinary people, Alan Sillitoe combines family memoir with exhaustive rese...

  • Life Goes On

    A laugh-out-loud adventure novel starring bestselling author Alan Sillitoe’s most outrageous character: the happy bastard Michael Cullen. For most of his life, Michael Cullen was a twenty-two-carat no-good bastard, and he was quite proud of it. But...

  • Birthday

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    The long-anticipated sequel to Alan Sillitoe’s bestselling classic 1950s novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Arthur and Brian Seaton are heading back to their hometown, Nottingham, some forty-odd years after the close of Saturday Night and Sund...

  • The Broken Chariot

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    This postwar British coming-of-age novel questions the foundations of society and self.   Class and identity are lifelong struggles for Herbert Thurgarton-Strang, who was born in India but sent away at age seven to a boarding school in England. ...



  • The Far Side of the Street

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  • Leonard's War

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Alan Sillitoe has published 31 books.

Alan Sillitoe does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Life Goes On, was published in August 2016.

The first book by Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, was published in June 1959.

No. Alan Sillitoe does not write books in series.
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