Alan Sillitoe was born in Nottingham, England, to working-class parents. His father worked in the Raleigh factory. In World War II he served with the Royal Air Force as a wireless operator in Malaysia from 1946-1949. Upon returning to England, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and spent sixteen months in an RAF hospital. After he was discharged, he lived in France and Spain on his veteran's pension and attempted to recover from the disease. In 1955, while living in Mallorca with his lover, American poet Ruth Fainlight, he began to write his first novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, which was published in 1958. He has written many novels and several volumes of poetry. In 1995 he wrote an autobiography, Life Without Armour. He married Ruth Fainlight, and lives in London.
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
14 editions - first published in 1958 -
Key to the Door
7 editions - first published in 1961 Borrow -
The General
5 editions - first published in 1960 -
The Death of William Posters
5 editions - first published in 1965 -
The widower's son
5 editions - first published in 1976 -
Raw Material
5 editions - first published in 1972 -
A tree on fire
4 editions - first published in 1967 -
A start in life
4 editions - first published in 1970 -
Leading the Blind
3 editions - first published in 1996 -
La solitude du coureur de fond
3 editions - first published in 1963 -
Snowstop
3 editions - first published in 1993 -
The German Numbers Woman
3 editions - first published in 1999 -
Travels in Nihilon
3 editions - first published in 1971 -
Love in the environs of Voronezh
3 editions - first published in 1968 -
The storyteller
3 editions - first published in 1979 -
Road to Volgograd
3 editions - first published in 1964 -
Men, women and children
3 editions - first published in 1973 -
The Broken Chariot
3 editions - first published in 1998 -
The lost flying boat
3 editions - first published in 1983 -
The Flame of Life
2 editions - first published in 1974 -
The Mentality of the Picaresque Hero
2 editions - first published in 1993 -
The city adventures of Marmalade Jim
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Out of the whirlpool
2 editions - first published in 1987 -
Down to the bone
2 editions - first published in 1976 -
Out of the Whirlpool (Arena Books)
2 editions - first published in 1988 -
Life goes on
2 editions - first published in 1985 -
Her Victory Part 1 of 2
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Her Victory Part 2 of 2
2 editions - first published in 1982 -
The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner
2 editions - first published in 1994 -
Life without armour
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A falling out of love
2 editions - first published in 1964 -
Samedi soir, dimanche matin
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Her victory
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Sun before departure
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The Rats
1 edition - first published in 1960 -
A flight of arrows
1 edition - first published in 2003 -
The Saxon shore way
1 edition - first published in 1983 -
From Snow on the north side of Lucifer
1 edition - first published in 1979 -
Samstagnacht und Sonntagmorgen. Roman
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
More Lucifer
1 edition - first published in 1980 -
Gadfly in Russia
1 edition - first published in 2008 -
Marmalade Jim and the fox
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Her Victory-V1
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Alan Sillitoe's Nottinghamshire
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Water slides
1 edition - first published in 1986 -
The incredible fencing fleas
1 edition - first published in 1978 -
Her Victory-V2
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Marmalade Jim at the farm
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Tides and stone walls
1 edition - first published in 1986 -
Collected poems
1 edition - first published in 1993 -
Three plays
1 edition - first published in 1978 -
Last loves
1 edition - first published in 1990 -
Die Einsamkeit des Langstreckenläufers. Erzählung
1 edition - first published in 1990 -
Selection (Imprint Books)
1 edition - first published in 1968 -
Long Distance Runner
1 edition - first published in 1960 -
Down from the hill
1 edition - first published in 1984 -
Managing squash courts
1 edition - first published in 1988 -
Big John and the stars
1 edition - first published in 1977 -
Storm
1 edition - first published in 1974 -
Leonard's War
1 edition - first published in 1993 -
Barbarians and other poems
1 edition - first published in 1973 -
Down from the Hill
1 edition - first published in 1991 -
Snow on the north side of Lucifer
1 edition - first published in 1979 -
General, The
1 edition - first published in 1979 -
Soledad del Corredor de Fondo La
1 edition - first published in 2000 -
El Carro Del Sol / The Broken Chariot
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
Out of the Whirlpool
1 edition - first published in 1988 -
Shaman
1 edition - first published in 1968 -
Mountains and caverns
1 edition - first published in 1975 -
Every day of the week
1 edition - first published in 1987 -
Day-dream communique
1 edition - first published in 1977 -
The Lost Flying Boat
1 edition - first published in 1984 -
Men, women and children / Alan Sillitoe
1 edition - first published in 1974 -
Birthday
1 edition - first published in 2006 -
Down from the Hill
1 edition - first published in 1985 -
A man of his time
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
The Death of William Posters
1 edition - first published in 1986 -
A Tree on Fire
1 edition - first published in 1986 -
La soledad del corredor de fondo
1 edition - first published in 2007
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