Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe

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The Killing Jar by Nicola Monaghan (2006).

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962).

His current project is Whatever People Say I Am, a comic series challenging stereotypes. He is a former member of the Alan Sillitoe Committee and created The Sillitoe Trail, a multimedia digital platform in which he explored the enduring relevance of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.

James Walker is a writer who specialises in the fiction of Nottingham. He died in 2010 after writing over 70 works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, and children’s stories. He took up writing, living in France and Spain where he began writing Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Sillitoe’s writing celebrates the working-class spirit of Arthur, and is a vital, alive depiction of the Nottingham streets in which he lives.Īlan Sillitoe was born in Nottingham in 1928. The novel follows Arthur Seaton, a rebellious young factory worker who works all week so he can spend the weekends drinking and fraternising with married women. In this episode, we talk to writer James Walker about Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe.

This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess’s list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess’s interest in fiction. In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939.