R.I.P. Alan Sillitoe

One of my great heroes, Alan Sillitoe, an Angry Young Man of British fiction, died at Charing Cross hospital in London today, aged 82.
Sillitoe is survived by his wife, the poet Ruth Fainlight, his daughter Susan and son David.

Sillitoe worked in a bicycle factory in his native Nottingham before serving in the RAF. His breakthrough [...:]