J.B. Priestley
Angel Pavement
Introduced by
D.J. Taylor
GREAT NORTHERN BOOKS
Tucked away in the City of London, lies a dingy, almost forgotten side street known as Angel Pavement. Here can be found the headquarters of Twigg & Dersingham, suppliers of veneers and inlays to the furniture trade. Business is slow and the staff struggle against a tide of growing competition, rising prices and recession. Into their midst descends the mysterious and charming Mr Golspie and the promise of a brighter future. Life will never be the same again for all those concerned with the firm.
Angel Pavement is one of the great London novels: a vivid evocation of the sprawling and crowded pre-war metropolis. It is also a brilliant examination of what happens to a small group of office staff when the destructive force of a rapacious financial predator is unleashed among them.
A novel very much for our own time.
“The whole fabric of the few lives, are opened up to us with a warm and generous assiduity that is entirely convincing… magnificent.”
The Times
“One of the finest and most popular storytellers of the last hundred years. His stories have a prophetic quality... enriched and strengthened by time.”
Dame Margaret Drabble
“A lost classic from the teeming world of Depression-era London.”
D.J. Taylor
Angel Pavement
Introduced by
D.J. Taylor
GREAT NORTHERN BOOKS
Tucked away in the City of London, lies a dingy, almost forgotten side street known as Angel Pavement. Here can be found the headquarters of Twigg & Dersingham, suppliers of veneers and inlays to the furniture trade. Business is slow and the staff struggle against a tide of growing competition, rising prices and recession. Into their midst descends the mysterious and charming Mr Golspie and the promise of a brighter future. Life will never be the same again for all those concerned with the firm.
Angel Pavement is one of the great London novels: a vivid evocation of the sprawling and crowded pre-war metropolis. It is also a brilliant examination of what happens to a small group of office staff when the destructive force of a rapacious financial predator is unleashed among them.
A novel very much for our own time.
“The whole fabric of the few lives, are opened up to us with a warm and generous assiduity that is entirely convincing… magnificent.”
The Times
“One of the finest and most popular storytellers of the last hundred years. His stories have a prophetic quality... enriched and strengthened by time.”
Dame Margaret Drabble
“A lost classic from the teeming world of Depression-era London.”
D.J. Taylor
