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This classic selection of the best of Stan Barstow’s stories covers the last five decades of British life. A group of young tearaways on a night out that begins with horseplay and ends in tragedy; the loneliness of a drunken miner’s wife; a wa...
Originally published in 1960, this popular novel about frustrated youth laid the groundwork for contemporary writers such as Tony Parsons and Nick Hornby. All about love, lust, and loneliness, the book introduces Vic Brown, a young working-class...
The secret life of a rich man in a small town. Tom Simpkins, one-time mayor and wealthy widower, leads a simple, open life. Or so it seems. When his neighbor Sid Moffat dies, the skeletons in the closet begin to rattle. Sid had been the husba...