The picaresque adventures of a no-good, genuine, twenty-two carat bastard, who sets off from the North to seek fame and fortune in London.

A key novel in twentieth century literature. A raw uninhibited story which burst like a bomb on the English scene and blasted the cobwebs from the worlds of Arnold Bennet and DH Lawrence

A disturbing novel about a working man who quite suddenly decides that he's had enough: enough of his job, enough of his hometown, enough of his wife. So he just chooses a road and walks. It doesn't matter to the man where the road leads.....In fact it leads to Pat and Myra and Algeria and London. And the death of William Posters.....