<p>1986 reprint of a play first performed in 1938 in Richmond, London. Twice filmed where it is also known as 'Angel Street' (1939) and 'Murder in Thornton Square' (1944). 83 pages.</p>

Gaslight: Victorian Thriller: Play in 3 Acts (2 Males, 3 Females) (Drama)

Literature & Fiction

Patrick Hamilton

Dramas & Plays

Constable

Set in late 1930s London, "Hangover Square" is the brilliant and disquieting tale of George Harvey Bone, a perpetual drunk. He suffers from 'dark' moods, which click on and off without warning, as if someone has tripped a switch in his head. On his supposedly better days, George whiles away his time nursing a pint or six and obsessing about the attractive but cruel small-time actress Netta. Disgusted by his own helpless devotion and his increasingly erratic behaviour, George is driven to the edge - culminating in "Hangover Square's" spectacular and haunting climax. Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt, esteemed actor who first became famous in Green Wing.

Hangover Square (Fiction - General)

Contemporary

Constable and Robinson

Patrick Hamilton may be best known now for the plays Rope and Gaslight and for the classic Alfred Hitchcock and George Cukor movies they inspired, but in his heyday he was no less famous for his brooding tales of London life. Featuring a Dickensian cast of pubcrawlers, prostitutes, lowlifes, and just plain losers who are looking for love—or just an ear to bend—Hamilton’s novels are a triumph of deft characterization, offbeat humor, unlikely compassion, and raw suspense. In recent years, Hamilton has undergone a remarkable revival, with his champions including Doris Lessing, David Lodge, Nick Hornby, and Sarah Waters.Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky is a tale of obsession and betrayal that centers on a seedy pub in a run-down part of London. Bob the waiter skimps and saves and fantasizes about writing a novel, until he falls for the pretty prostitute Jenny and blows it all. Kindly Ella, Bob’s co-worker, adores Bob, but is condemned to enjoy nothing more than the attentions of the insufferable Mr. Eccles; Jenny, out on the street, is out of love, hope, and money. We watch with pity and horror as these three vulnerable and yet compellingly ordinary people meet and play out bitter comedies of longing and frustration.

Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky

Literary

VINTAGE (RAND)

Hangover Square

J.B.Priestley

Penguin

From the moment he set eyes on Mrs Plumleigh-Bruce, Gorse knew he had found another victim...Ernest Ralph Gorse, devious hero of Hamilton's acclaimed The West Pier, turns up again one cold January night in 1928, in the saloon bar of The Friar; Reading. There Mrs Plumleigh-Bruce, archetypal colonel's widow and the worst sort of dog-owner, is holding court. She has already attracted the more or less serious attentions of Mr Stimpson (local estate agent and subterranean lecher) and Major Parry (something.of a poet since his retirement). To Gorse, undisturbed by her rabbity-toothedcharms, she represents simply an ideal opportunity to exercise his perverse and vicious genius...'Uniquely individual... He is the novelist of innocence, appallingly vulnerable, and of malevolence, coming out of some mysterious darkness of evil'-J.B. PriestleyA hypnotic writer'- Time Out

Mr. Stimpson and Mr.Gorse

Penguin Books, Ltd.

<p>Ralph Gorse appears to be a charmer in every way--he is handsome, suave, and full of style--but his true nature is that of a con man and sexual adventurer, and no one is safe from his machinations</p>

The Charmer

Penguin??Books

The modest Miss Roach finds herself trapped in a grotesque boarding house and its despairing inhabitants, in a blacked-out war-consumed town. Into this world step two American soldiers - do they offer the chance of freedom or are they simply new furies sent to torment Miss Roach?

The Slaves of Solitude (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

Slaves Of Solitude

ABACUS +

The West Pier

VIKING

20,000 St. Under Sky

The Hogarth Press Ltd.

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