<p>In 1951 Turnstile Press published Common's best-known book, the autobiographical Kiddar's Luck, in which he vividly describes his childhood on the streets of Edwardian Tyneside, as seen through the lens of his adult socialism. There are four chapters on his life before five years old - a feat of detailed memory - while his mother's alcoholism and the overbearing father whom Jack at length dramatically defies, form the dark background to the vigorous, at times bravura, narrative. The book found praise as a slice of Geordie naturalism, a convincing depiction of 'the other England' which so beguiled the imagination of contemporary intellectuals. On the other hand, its irony and subtly bitter universality went largely unrecognised.In The Ampersand (1954) Common took the story further, but his publishers went into liquidation two years later. Neither book had been a commercial success and Common had not completed the trilogy with his long-promised Riches and Rare, a novel set in Newcastle at the time of the General Strike. Interestingly, Lawrence Bradshaw had used Common's brow as a model for his bust of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery, saying that he found there a similar patience and understanding.-</p>

Kiddar's luck and The ampersand

Common, Jack

Frank Graham

Bedlington Iron and Engine Works 1736-1867 Northern History Boooklets No 52

Evan Martin

Songs and Ballads of Northern England

Arts & Photography

John Stokoe

Music

Hadrian's Wall Reconstructed (Northumbrian colour booklets)

DANIELS, Charles

Architecture

Rothbury and Coquetdale (Northern history booklet ; no. 65)

GRAHAM, Frank

Newcastle Town, an account of its rise and progress: its struggles and triumphs: and its ending

R J Charlton

The Battle of Jarama 1937: The story of the British Battalion of the International Brigade's baptism of fire in the Spanish War

History

Knight, Frida (trans)

Europe

The First Man to Walk Hadrian's Wall 1802

Hutton, William

Roman Garden

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The Armour of the Roman Legions

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