THE TIMES: A good collection of his short stories which will appeal most to all of those who know industrial Lancashire and its brash, kindly inhabitants with their conquering sense of humour.

TIME AND TIDE: Mr Naughton is noted for his virility, down to earth humour, and his understanding of the ordinary man in the street... a collection that should gain Mr Naughton many new fans.

DAILY TELEGRAPH: Whether Mr Naughton writes of an all-night cafe or the alleyways of a Lancashire weaving shed, he gives the impression of a man drawing on first-hand experience.

contents:
Late Night on Watling Street - A skilled man
Bit o' skin - Poison Pincher - Taddy the Lamplighter The key of the cabinet - The bees have stopped working - Tom's sister - Boozer's labourer - Weaver's knot - Seeing a Beauty Queen home - Away from home - The tell-tale clock - Cockney Mum - Spiv in love - The half-Nelson touch - The little Welsh girl

First published in England 1959 by MacGibbon & Kee. First Ace Books edition 1961
© Bill Naughton 1959

DAILY TELEGRAPH: Nelson Algren has made a reputation as a chronicler of the brutal and sordid aspects of American lower-class life and Never Comes Morning takes us among the dregs of the Polish community in Chicago... Poverty, dirt and depravity suffuse the book, yet Mr Algren eventually convinces us of his deep sincerity, his wracked pity for this human detritus... This is the new realism and many will not like it, but in Mr Algren's hands it never descends to the merely harrowing nor to the lubricious.

First published in England in 1958 by Neville Spearman Ltd, London W1
First Ace Books edition 1961
© 1958 by Neville Spearman Ltd.