Michael Cullen leaves Nottingham and his pregnant girlfriend behind to flee to London. Here he becomes involved in a smuggling ring, headed by the shady Claude Moggerhanger, and ends up smuggling gold bars for Jack Leningrad, who lives in an iron lung.

A Start in Life (London Books Classics)

Literature & Fiction

ALAN SILLITOE

Contemporary

London Books

'The Gilt Kid' focuses on a convicted burglar and Communist sympathiser, freshly released from prison. Instead of going on the straight and narrow, he wastes little time in plunging back into the London underworld.

The Gilt Kid

James, Curtis

Literary

When Shorty Mathews leaves prison after two years he goes to visit 'nice little bit' Alice, only to find that she has been strangled. Shorty panics and goes on the run, leaving the city behind and hitching rides with lorry drivers, going through various adventures before returning to London.

They Drive by Night

JONATHAN MEADES

Bored with the routine of normal labour & fed up with its wages, tough-yet-decent Jim turns his back on work & embraces the life of a wide boy. From the pubs & clubs of a lost West End to the gang warfare of the race-course & dog-track, Jim ducks & dives & lives his life on the edge, until he is finally forced to make a life-changing decision.

Wide Boys Never Work

Iain-Sinclair

Robert Westerby

<p>Set over a three-day period in mid-1930s London, 'May Day' is a fast-paced novel that follows the fortunes of a diverse range of characters as militant anger bubbles over in the East End and spills into the City and West End on May 1st.</p>

May Day (London Classics)

John Sommerfield

John King (introduction)

Genre Fiction

Barry Desmond Is A Wanker

Martin Knight

<p>Tommy Mutch is a working-class lad from the slums of West London, eager to escape the mean streets of Notting Dale. Boxing is in its 1930s heyday and, like many in his position, Tommy sees it as an escape route from poverty. As a preliminary boy on the verge of making the breakthrough this is more than just a dream, but he hasnt bargained for the obstacles he has to face outside the ring - crooked promoters, hucksters, pimps and prostitutes, small-time gangsters. Tommy has strong morals and a fierce sense of justice, but these are about to be put to the test.</p>

There Ain't No Justice

Prelude To A Certain Midnight

Classics

Ultraviolet: A Glastonbury Tale

Blueblagger

The Arundel Murder

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