Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Alan Sillitoe NPG x24421

© Granville Davies / National Portrait Gallery, London

by Granville Davies

Left school at fourteen and started working at the Raleigh Bicycle Factory. He joined the Royal Air Force in 1946, and was posted to Malaya where he contracted tuberculosis; hospitalised for eighteen months, he began writing. Sillitoe's first volume of poetry, Without Beer or Bread (1957), was followed in 1958 by his first novel, the groundbreaking Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. It was awarded the Author's Club First Novel Award, was made into a film in 1960, and adapted as a stage play in 1964.... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.