Colin Saville grows up in a mining village in South Yorkshire, against the background of war, of an industrialised countryside, of town and coalmine and village.

Saville

Literature & Fiction

STOREY, David

Contemporary

Harper&Row

When originally published this was described as an exceptional first novel because the characters are concerned with expressing themselves in physical rather than emotional or intellectual terms. The world in which the story is set is that of professional Rugby League in a Norther English industrial city, and spans several years in the life of narrator Arthur Machin.

This Sporting Life

Vintage

Present Times

Vintage Books

Penguin??Books

'An astonishing achievement . . . A major work of art . . . Radcliffe establishes David Storey as the leading novelist of his generation.' - Daily Telegraph  'Storey's fiction ought to . . . secure his reputation as one of the most original writers of his generation.' - The Guardian  'A very skilled and very intelligent writer indeed . . . a sharp depicter and an exacting judge of shades of emotion.' - New York Times  'One of the most powerful studies in human frailty, conflict, and ultimate destruction to have been published for years.' - Oakland Tribune  'The greatest study of obsessive passion since Wuthering Heights.' - Sunday Times  Leonard Radcliffe is the last scion of an ancient aristocratic family whose crumbling Gothic mansion looms high above the public housing estate where his friend, Victor Tolson, lives. Radcliffe, artistic and effete, and Tolson, rugged and masculine, find themselves strangely drawn to each other as boys, an attraction that develops into an obsessive love as they grow into men. But Tolson's love is of a possessive, brutal kind that seeks to dominate and destroy the object of its affection, and the violence of their passion will lead to a tragic and unforgettable conclusion.  A powerful, haunting story with echoes of Wuthering Heights and the works of Poe and Dostoevsky, David Storey's acclaimed third novel Radcliffe (1963) returns to print in this edition, which includes a new introduction by Alice Ferrebe. Storey's Pasmore (shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Saville (winner of the Booker Prize) are also available from Valancourt Books.

Radcliffe

Avon/Books

Three plays tell the stories of four people who meet at a mental institution, a British rugby team in their locker room, and a bizarre family

Home (Penguin plays)

Dramas & Plays

Penguin

Three plays tell the stories of four people who meet at a mental institution, a British rugby team in their locker room, and a bizarre family

Home; The Changing Room; Mother's Day

Two elderly gentlemen stroll on to an almost bare terrace. They discuss various subjects - the past, schooldays, climate, the sea, moustaches, the war, families, etc., etc. It is not until the following scene when we meet two women that we realize we are actually in the grounds of a mental hospital, and that these people are patients. Although with no plot at all in the conventional sense and sparse dialogue, by the end of the afternoon we have been moved to compassion and respect.

Home

JONATHAN CAPE.

"David Storey is a writer who genuinely extends the territory of drama"―GuardianThe 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, purposeful and exhilerating. You'd never imagine realism could be this theatrical…The Changing Room takes you into its world in a way few plays achieve."―Independent on Sunday

The changing room

CAPE.

Cromwell (Cape plays)

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Saville

This Sporting Life

Present Times

This Sporting Life

Radcliffe

Home (Penguin plays)

Home; The Changing Room; Mother's Day

Home

The changing room

Cromwell (Cape plays)