{"title":"Alan Sillitoe","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-open-door","title":"The Open Door","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith an introduction by Alan Sillitoe's widow, the poet Ruth Fainlight.\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Open Door\u003c\/em\u003e follows \u003cem\u003eSaturday Night and Sunday Morning\u003c\/em\u003e as the final volume in the Seaton series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReturning on a troopship from Malaya in 1949, Brian Seaton (Arthur's brother) comes back to a Nottingham world of rationing, the black market, a wife he no longer loves and a child who does not recognise him. He is full of life and lust, but he has tuberculosis, forcing a long stay in a military hospital where he falls for first one nurse, then a second, while carrying on a relationship with another TB sufferer back in Nottingham.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the background, this partially autobiographical novel reveals that Seaton is starting to write, meeting others like him as he realises there is a wider world than the back streets of his Midlands home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Five Leaves Publications","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1041242876,"sku":"9781907869631","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/sillitoe-alan-theopendoor.jpeg?v=1752238079"},{"product_id":"these-seven","title":"These Seven","description":"These Seven Nottingham writers cover a lot of ground. \u003cstrong\u003eShreya Sen Handley\u003c\/strong\u003e's Indian family discovers something going on at the bottom of their garden, \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Harvey\u003c\/strong\u003e visits his traditional world of crime with a story more domestic than usual, \u003cstrong\u003eAlison Moore\u003c\/strong\u003e realises that a weekend away is not always idyllic, \u003cstrong\u003ePaula Rawsthorne\u003c\/strong\u003e finds that being a child of a refugee brings its own problems and\u003cstrong\u003e Megan Taylor\u003c\/strong\u003e spends time in the Market Square waiting on someone whose arrival might change her life. Meantime graphic novelist \u003cstrong\u003eBrick\u003c\/strong\u003e imagines a Nottingham version of Simeon the Stylite, who lived on top of a pillar for thirty-seven years, and \u003cstrong\u003eAlan Sillitoe\u003c\/strong\u003e is back on the streets of Nottingham, where this all began.","brand":"Five Leaves Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":4258206021,"sku":"9781910170205","price":3.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/seven.jpg?v=1752238946"},{"product_id":"the-long-piece","title":"The Long Piece","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“I was born in 1928, on March 4th, under the sign of Pisces, in the front bedroom of a red-bricked council house on the further outskirts of Nottingham. We left the neighbourhood some months later, and though I lived a few miles from it during much of my life, I didn’t see the house till I was over forty, while casually walking around the area one day. Otherwise it had had no interest for me.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this essay, first published in 1975, and the only autobiographical piece currently in print, Sillitoe describes his childhood and his early years as a writer. He tells of his relationship with books when he was young, his family and their wartime experiences, his recovery from tuberculosis after service in the Air Force, and his travels with Ruth Fainlight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch of the essay focuses on his relationship with Robert Graves, who became friends with the couple while they lived in Majorca, and encouraged Sillitoe to write a book set in Nottingham. Thus \u003cem\u003eSaturday Night and Sunday Morning\u003c\/em\u003e was written.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlan Sillitoe\u003c\/strong\u003e achieved national fame through the book and film, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. First published in 1958, it remains in print, as does his The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, which was also made into a film in the 1960s. Sillitoe went on to write another thirty novels and collections of short stories, a dozen collections of essays and travel writing, volumes of poetry, several children's books, and screenplays.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Five Leaves Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39992212619342,"sku":"9781910170939","price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/9781910170939.jpg?v=1752239008"}],"url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/alan-sillitoe-1\/alison-moore.oembed","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}