 | Small Island by Andrea Levy
Buy new: £4.34 / Used from: £0.01 Read it. How they got there, how they found it, and how some got away - both black tenants and their landlords.
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 | The Slaves of Solitude (20th Century Classics) by Patrick Hamilton
Buy used from: £1.99 Read and weep. Like office politics, but at least you get to leave the office and go home ...
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 | The Boarding House by William Trevor
Buy used from: £0.96 Another Trevor masterpiece, another bunch of oddballs.
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 | The Lowlife (London Writing) by Alexander Baron
Buy used from: £11.96 Great gambling novel (dogs!) but better on the shared house and its tenants.
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 | The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Classic bed-sit novel - marred by some horrid descriptions of black and gay people.
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 | Of Love and Hunger (Penguin Modern Classics) by Julian MacLaren-Ross
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £2.67 Tricks and scams in a seedy seaside town - precarious living and dodging the landlady.
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 | Misadventures by Sylvia Smith
Buy used from: £0.01 Abrupt style, but plenty on trials of shared living accommodation circa 1980s.
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 | In Pursuit of the English by Doris May Lessing
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.01 Intellectual Lessing slums it among the working classes, with hilarious consequences.
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 | Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Penguin Modern Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £2.99 Talented chap eventually trades art, poverty and dodgy digs for suburban respectability.
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| Craven House by Patrick Hamilton
Buy used from: £2.77 If you can get hold of this sadly OOP gem - a gentler precurser to The Slaves of Solitude, set just after WW1
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| London Belongs to Me by Norman Collins
Buy used from: £2.00 Rare glimpse of how many lived, before widespread social housing. Plenty of Ealing Comedy melodrama too.
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