At first sight, The School of Night by Alan Wall seems to be a novel about English social class. The childhoods of Sean and Daniel are spent in Yorkshire, Bradford to be precise, though the town remains recognisable but strangely anonymous throughout. Social class differences can be keenly felt ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Richard II My father, Adam Bayliss, accountant, had one great friend, Victor Cray, solicitor. He would come to our house every month for dinner, and I would clamber over his vast belly, and pull from his waistcoat pocket his golden watch, which, after he had turned a tiny w...