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Paul Willetts is a freelance writer whose works have been published in The Independent, The Times, The TLS, The Spectator, The Independent on Sunday and other publications. He has written several books including Fear and Loathing in Fitzrovia and North Soho 999, and wrote the film The Look of Love, a biopic of Paul Raymond.

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The Salesman Only Rings Once

Paul Willetts on Julian Maclaren-Ross, Of Love and Hunger

I hunted for his books as well as for the miscellanies and magazines that featured his work. Though his entertaining, much-quoted Memoirs of the Forties soon reappeared in paperback, the rest of his surprisingly extensive output was hard to obtain. Due to their scarcity, his books commanded prices way beyond what I could afford. When I mentioned this to a flatmate who had access to a well-stocked reference library, my friend offered to smuggle out the ones I wanted. The first was the novel Of Love and Hunger, handed over to me at a furtive rendezvous. Before returning it a fortnight later, I photocopied the entire book. Confronted by a stack of smudgily duplicated pages, I felt like a Soviet dissident poring over a samizdat volume.

All the Fun of the Fair

Paul Willetts on Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

I was drawn to Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe’s 1958 debut novel, for just such unintellectual reasons. I suppose I must have been about 17 at the time. From what I remember, my sudden urge to read this two-decade-old novel stemmed from seeing the 1960 film adaptation on TV. I was also curious because it was set in Nottingham, where I’d grown up.

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