British Literature

[close] This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underreported issues of our era. All you need is an enquiring mind and a desire to gain or share “underground knowledge”. This is also a place to discuss the controversial topics explored in The Underground Knowledge Series (non-fiction books) by James Morcan & Lance Morcan as well as the Underground Knowledge podcast show.

[close] A place where readers can come to discuss the life and work of the English writer Patrick Hamilton, and similar or associated writers. You will also find discussion about Julian Maclaren-Ross, Joseph Mitchell, Lynne Reid Banks, Gerald Kersh, Cathi Unsworth, Sam Selvon, Derek Raymond, Ted Lewis and many more. Patrick Hamilton's novels Monday Morning (1925) Craven House (1926, revised edition 1943) Twopence Coloured (1928) The Midnight Bell (1929) The Siege of Pleasure (1932) The Plains of Cement (1934) Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky (1935 - trilogy of The Midnight Bell, The Siege of Pleasure, and The Plains of Cement) Impromptu In Moribundia (1939) Hangover Square (1941) The Slaves of Solitude (1947) The West Pier (1952) Mr. Stimpson And Mr.Gorse (1953) Unknown Assailant (1955) The Gorse Trilogy: The West Pier, Mr Stimpson And Mr Gorse, Unknown Assailant Patrick Hamilton's plays Rope: A Play (1929) Gas Light (1938) The Duke in Darkness (1943) The Man Upstairs (1953) Angel Street (1966) Patrick Hamilton's radio plays Money with Menaces (1939) To the Public Danger (1939)

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[close] Book club for the meetup group https://www.meetup.com/northeastcultureandconversation/ aimed at 20 to 49 year olds in North East England / Newcastle