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A Kind of Loving, by Stan Barstow, one of the seminal novels of working class life in the 1950s is re-published by Parthian in a special 50th anniversary edition. It is also being broadcast on Radio 4 with an adaptation for Woman's Hour by award winning writer Diana Griffiths.
In the five decades since its initial publication, A Kind of Loving has lost none of its power; indeed, its contemporary relevance is astonishing. Barstow's work, in its empathetic anger and passion and integrity, has long been a hope and a beacon for the socially engaged and politically committed writer and reader and this re-issue of one of the last century's finest novels is not only a boon but a necessity. Such is the mark of great and imperishable literature.’" Niall Griffiths
A working class boy learns about love, lust and life in the industrial
north of the 1950s. A classic of post-war British fiction, A Kind of Loving became a feature film in 1962, a TV serial in 1982 and has also been dramatised for theatre and radio.
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Lewis Davies' new play Supertramp, Sickert and Jack the Ripper previewed at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff on Wednesday - ahead of its run at the Edinburgh Fringe which starts next Friday. Based on the meetings between W.H.Davies (author of Autobiography of a Super-Tramp) and the Camden Town painter Walter Sickert, the play is directed by Rebecca Gould and stars Chris Morgan and Richard Tunley.



