The Midnight Bell, a pub on the Euston Road, is where barman, Bob, falls in love with Jenny, a West End prostitute who comes in off the streets for a gin and pep. Around his obsessions, and Ella the barmaid's secret love for him, swirls the sleazy life of London in the 1930s.[...]
London 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation with Netta who is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in hell, until something goes click in his head and he realizes that he must kill her.[...]
The West Pier; Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse; Unknown Assailant.
A light-hearted satire on the English boarding-house, its inhabitants and its conventions. The characters are deftly and amusingly drawn, their interplay skilfully handled.[...]
Provides complete coverage of the National Occupational Standards at Level 2 as set by the IMI. This title features full-colour diagrams and images illustrating key techniques and the Tip Boxes, weblinks, activities and questions that may ensure learners have full understanding of all the essential [...]
The Rosamund Tea Rooms is an oppressive place, as grey and lonely as its residents. For Miss Roach, slave of her task-master, solitude, a window of opportunity is suddenly presented by the appearance of a charismatic American Lieutenant. His arrival brings change to the precarious society of the hou[...]
"Hamilton . . . is a sort of urban Thomas Hardy: . . . always a pleasure to read, and as social historian he is unparalleled."-Nick Hornby "A much better writer than Auden, Isherwood . . . and his novels are still true now. You can go into any pub today and see it going on."-Doris Lessing, "The Time[...]