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Author and all-around "angry young man" Alan Sillitoe celebrates his 80th birthday by appearing at the fabulous Foyles bookshop to talk about his life and work. Sillitoe's bleak, late-1950s novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and short story The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner explore the disillusioned state of the working class in post-war Britain; they were eventually made into seminal films starring Albert Finney and Tom Courtenay, respectively. The unrepentant smoker also discusses his recently republished 1970 London-based tale, A Start in Life.

– Lucy Davies

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