I'm a bit of a Patrick Hamilton groupie. It's funny how his writing sems to go in and out of fashion over the years and consequently in and out of print. Although a few of his novels have been republished in recent years his first novel, 'Monday Morning' seems to have been forgotten somehow. Not holding out much hope I thought I'd try to get hold of a library copy and amazingly my fabulous & tiny local library has managed to track down an original 1925 edition for me from their fictions stores. The poor, precious thing had been locked up in a stack somewhere for years just sitting and going mouldy. Apparently London libraries have a huge range of 'out of print' fiction in stores which has been divided up between their branches alphabetically by author. The librarian there shares my love of Patrick Hamilton & 30s writing in general and we both got a bit overexcited by this find.
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He's pretty awesome.
You seem to have a lovely library, darling. Good for you.
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