David Storey is a writer who genuinely extends the territory of drama (Guardian)The Changing Room: It's about exactly what it is: Storey offers us, with an unforced tenderness, the shifting moods of everyday experience...the scene is busy, pu...
A miner’s daughter leaves home to make a new life in London with a married teacher in this beautiful love story that won the 1961 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Most of Margaret’s family is graveside when they lay her grandfather to rest. Although eve...
An art teacher searches for meaning in a strange town as his wife spirals into madness in this stunning novel from Man Booker Prize"winning author David Storey Colin Freestone had not planned to live in northern England. The people here are so pass...
A rugby player finds fame and fortune in a bleak mining town, but he cannot outrun the emptiness he feels inside in Man Booker Prize-winning author David Storey’s seminal first novel On Christmas Eve, Arthur breaks his two front teeth. A teamma...
A wry and deeply affecting novel about a man’s ruminations on art and death by the Man Booker Prize"winning author of This Sporting Life Matthew Maddox is an art historian and professor emeritus at the Drayburgh School of Fine Art. Nearing 70, hi...
A seventeen-year-old is sent to the country to live with his much-older half-brother and falls into an unexpected affair in this novel by Man Booker Prize"winning author David Storey The narrator of Storey’s eleventh novel is an angst-ridden seve...
From “the leading novelist of his generation” (the Daily Telegraph) -- a story about marriage, family, and 1 man’s 2nd chance At age 47, former playwright Frank Attercliffe lives with 2 of his 5 children in a 4-bedroom apartment on Walton Lane ...
A novel about family and class restrictions by the Man Booker Prize"winning author of This Sporting Life and Saville With 2 rooms downstairs and 3 upstairs, the house at Spinney Moor Road is a real step-up for the Morley family. Arthur Morley is a ...