This author captured the vibrant yet often gritty reality of London between and after the world wars. His works, frequently drawing from personal experience, delve into themes of societal divides, moral decay, and a growing disillusionment with modern life, particularly the dehumanizing impact of motorism and capitalism. As his political convictions deepened, his writing became more trenchant and critical of social inequalities. In his later years, his output adopted a bleaker, more cynical tone, mirroring his own disenchantment while retaining a powerful grip on the depiction of human nature.
Though George Perez’s style is highly recognizable, his contributions to comic art and history have not been fully acknowledged. Patrick Hamilton addresses this neglect, by discussing Perez’s artistic style within the context of Bronze Age superhero art, and by analysing Perez’s work for its representations of race, disability, and gender.
The classic novel from the author of Rope and Hangover Square.
Abacus is reissuing all of Patrick Hamilton's novels, to bring them to a new audience. Craven House is a light-hearted satire on the English boarding house.
A timeless classic of sleazy London life in the 1930s, a world of streets full of cruelty and kindness, comedy and pathos, where people emerge from cheap lodgings in Pimlico to pour out their passions, hopes and despair in pubs and bars.
Das wohlgeordnete Leben von Enid Roach gerät aus den Fugen. Der Londoner Bombenhagel treibt die 39jährige Verlagsangestellte in die Provinz, wo sie Dinge unternimmt, die sie unter normalen Umständen niemals auch nur in Betracht ziehen würde. Sie verabredet sich in Pubs, hat eine Affäre mit einem amerikanischen Offizier und wohnt in einer Pension mit den unterschiedlichsten Menschen zusammen. Im Tearoom, beim täglichen Abendessen, entwickeln die Pensionsgäste ihr eigenes Schlachtfeld. Hier haben Mr. Twaight und die Deutsche Vicki Kugelmann – erst ihre, dann seine Verbündete – das Sagen. Die beiden liefern Enid, ihrer „Miss Prüde“, einen zermürbenden Stellungskrieg, der diese langsam, aber unerbittlich zur Verzweiflung treibt.
Hamilton captures the edgy, obsessive and eventually murderous mindset of a romantically frustrated British man in this WWII-era novel. London 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation with Netta who is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in hell, until something goes click in his head and he realizes that he must kill her.
Melodrama, 2 m, 3 f, 2 extras; A Broadway hit first produced on the West End under the title Gaslight and filmed twice, Angel Street tells the story of the Manninghams who live on Angel Street in 19th Century London. As the curtain rises, all appears the essence of Victorian tranquility. It is soon apparent however, that Mr. Manningham, a suavely handsome man, is slowly driving his gentle, devoted wife Bella, to the brink of insanity with an insinuating kindness which masks more sinsister motives. While he is out, Mrs. Manningham has an unexpected caller: amiable, paternal Inspector Rough from Scotland Yard. Rough is convinced that Manningham is a homicidal maniac wanted for a murder committed fifteen years earlier in this very house. Gradually the inspector restores Bella's confidence in herself and as the evidence against Manningham unfolds, the author has built and sustained some of the most brilliant, suspenseful sequences in modern theatre.
