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The Small Back Room
Nigel Balchin
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Description for The Small Back Room
Paperback. A true modern classic, THE SMALL BACK ROOM is a towering novel of the Second World War. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FJMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
A true modern classic, THE SMALL BACK ROOM is a towering novel of the Second World War. Sammy Rice is a weapons scientist, one of the 'back room boys' of the Second World War. A crippling disability has left him cynical and disillusioned - he struggles with a drink problem at home, and politics and petty pride at work. Worse still, he fears he is not good enough for the woman he loves. The stakes are raised when the enemy begin to drop a new type of booby-trapped bomb, causing many casualties. Only Sammy has the know-how to diffuse it - but as he comes face to face with real danger, all his old inadequacies return to haunt him. Can he, at last, prove his worth and put his demons to rest?
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474601160
SKU
V9781474601160
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99-10
About Nigel Balchin
Nigel Balchin was born in 1908 and graduated in Natural Science from Cambridge University. During the Second World War he worked as a psychologist in the personnel section of the British War Office, before becoming Deputy Scientific Advisor to the Army Council. He wrote numerous books, including How to Run a Bassoon Factory (under the pseudonym Mark Spade), and Darkness Falls from the Air. He died in 1970.
Reviews for The Small Back Room
One of the hopes of British novel-writing . . . A writer of genius
John Betjeman Perhaps the most successful British author to emerge during the war
SATURDAY EVENING POST
One of the best writers, and certainly one of the best stylists, to come out of the war years
Michael Powell He can always be relied on to give us the set-up magnificently
BBC
The novelist of men at work
GUARDIAN
Balchin can tell an exciting story as well as any novelist alive
SUNDAY CHRONICLE
A superb storyteller
SUNDAY TIMES
Balchin has done so much to raise the standard of the popular novel
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Probably no other novelist of Mr. Balchin's value is so eminently and enjoyably readable . . . [He] never lets the reader down
Elizabeth Bowen
TATLER
Balchin has the rare magnetic power that draws the human eye from one sentence to the next
EVENING STANDARD
He tells a story gloriously
DAILY TELEGRAPH
A brilliant novelist . . . A writer of real skill
NEW STATESMAN
A remarkable storyteller
DAILY MAIL
I'd place him up there with Graham Greene
Philippa Gregory Balchin has been absurdly overlooked for too long
Julian Fellowes A little masterpiece like Nigel Balchin's The Small Back Room speaks to our own time, but with so much literary experience behind it
Shirley Hazzard Balchin writes about timeless things, the places in the heart
Ruth Rendell
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
[An] inexplicably neglected author
THE TIMES
The missing writer of the Forties . . . Balchin's professional skill gives a meaning to brilliance which the word doesn't usually possess
Clive James
NEW REVIEW
One of the hopes of British novel-writing . . . A writer of genius
John Betjeman
John Betjeman Perhaps the most successful British author to emerge during the war
SATURDAY EVENING POST
One of the best writers, and certainly one of the best stylists, to come out of the war years
Michael Powell He can always be relied on to give us the set-up magnificently
BBC
The novelist of men at work
GUARDIAN
Balchin can tell an exciting story as well as any novelist alive
SUNDAY CHRONICLE
A superb storyteller
SUNDAY TIMES
Balchin has done so much to raise the standard of the popular novel
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Probably no other novelist of Mr. Balchin's value is so eminently and enjoyably readable . . . [He] never lets the reader down
Elizabeth Bowen
TATLER
Balchin has the rare magnetic power that draws the human eye from one sentence to the next
EVENING STANDARD
He tells a story gloriously
DAILY TELEGRAPH
A brilliant novelist . . . A writer of real skill
NEW STATESMAN
A remarkable storyteller
DAILY MAIL
I'd place him up there with Graham Greene
Philippa Gregory Balchin has been absurdly overlooked for too long
Julian Fellowes A little masterpiece like Nigel Balchin's The Small Back Room speaks to our own time, but with so much literary experience behind it
Shirley Hazzard Balchin writes about timeless things, the places in the heart
Ruth Rendell
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
[An] inexplicably neglected author
THE TIMES
The missing writer of the Forties . . . Balchin's professional skill gives a meaning to brilliance which the word doesn't usually possess
Clive James
NEW REVIEW
One of the hopes of British novel-writing . . . A writer of genius
John Betjeman