Patrick Hamilton

A timeless classic of sleazy London life in the 1930s, a world of streets, full of cruelty and kindness, comedy and pathos, where people emerge from cheap lodgings in Pimlico to pour out their passions, hopes and despair in pubs and bars.

A London Trilogy

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky

This classic Victorian thriller was first produced in 1935. Jack Manningham is slowly, deliberately driving his wife, Bella, insane. He has almost succeeded when help arrives in the form of a former detective, Rough, who believes Manningham to be a thief and murderer. Aided by Bella, Rough proves Manningham's true identity and finally Bella achieves a few moments of sweet revenge for the suffering inflicted on her.

Gaslight

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.

A Story of Darkest Earl's Court

Hangover Square

Gas Light

Professional politicians have increasingly come under public attack in most democratic countries. Yet they have received surprisingly little systematic attention in political science. This book demonstrates that there are both striking similarities between professional politicians in different countries and notable national peculiarities. The introduction develops a common conceptual framework for the chapters to follow. Using Mosca's term and Weber's seminal insights it reconstructs the concept of political class to grasp the degree of common interests shared by politicians of different parties and in different institutions. Thereby, it presents an innovative perspective on politicians. The 20 country chapters written by scholars from 16 countries both provide up-to-date information on professional politics in their countries and discuss the merits of the theoretical approach. In doing so, they follow a common format thus facilitating a comparative reading of particular aspects.

A Play

Rope

Craven House

This wartime story of loneliness and homeless peole is set in an English boarding-house run by a thrifty widow. The effects of war on this isolated group--particularly the entrance of an American serviceman into lonely Miss Roach's life--are aptly told.

The Slaves of Solitude

A Play (Drama)

The Siege of Pleasure

The Plains of Cement

The Midnight Bell

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Julian Brown

John Rooke

This new edition of the highly successful Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Level 1 workbook provides complete coverage of the QCF National Occupational Standards at Level 1 as set by the IMI and is in-line with VRQ and NVQ qualifications. Learners will be inspired by the full-colour diagrams and images illustrating key techniques and the Tip Boxes, weblinks, activities and questions will ensure learners have full understanding of all the essential information. This easy to use, easy to follow workbook ensures learners have all the theoretical and practice knowledge in preparation for further study or the world of work.

Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Level 1

'All his novels are terrific, but this one is my favourite' Sarah Waters Measuring out the wartime days in a small town on the Thames, Miss Roach is not unattractive but no longer quite young. The Rosamund Tea Rooms boarding house, where she lives with half a dozen others, is as grey and lonely as its residents. For Miss Roach, 'slave of her task-master, solitude', a shaft of not altogether welcome light is suddenly beamed upon her, with the appearance of a charismatic and emotional American Lieutenant. With him comes change - tipping the precariously balanced society of the house and presenting Miss Roach herself with a dilemma.

London 1939 - in der unerbittlichen Welt der Pubs in Earl's Court gibt sich George Harvey Bone einer hilflosen Vernarrtheit hin: Netta ist kühl, voller Verachtung und - hoffnungslos begehrenswert. George treibt in einer Hölle der Trunkenheit. In seinen »toten« Momenten jedoch, wenn etwas in seinem Kopf »klick« macht, erkennt er ohne den geringsten Zweifel, daß er Netta töten muß ... In seinem düster-komischen Roman »Hangover Square« evoziert Patrick Hamilton die heruntergekommene, rauchverhangene Welt der Pubs, Pensionen und versoffenen Philosophen - in einem London voller dunkler Vorahnungen in den Monaten vor Kriegsausbruch.

Eine Geschichte aus dem finstersten Earl's Court

Barré Lyndon

John Brahm

Screen Play

'All his novels are terrific' Sarah Waters Patrick Hamilton's novels were the inspiration for Matthew Bourne's new dance theatre production, The Midnight Bell. In Craven House, among the shifting, uncertain world of the English boarding house, with its sad population of the shabby genteel on the way down - and the eternal optimists who would never get up or on - the young Patrick Hamilton, with loving, horrified fascination, first mapped out the territory that he would make, uniquely, his own. Although many of Hamilton's lifelong interests are here, they are handled with a youthful brio and optimism conspicuously absent from his later work. The inmates of Craven House have their foibles, but most are indulgently treated by an author whose world view has yet to harden from scepticism into cynicism. The generational conflicts of Hamilton's own youth thread throughout the narrative, with hair bobbing and dancing as the battle lines. That perennial of the 1920s bourgeoisie, the 'servant problem', is never far from the surface, and tensions crescendo gradually to a resolution one climactic dinnertime.

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