The story of Wilf Cotton, a young writer; he gets a short story broadcast on the radio, and so decides to leave his home in a mining village to work in a city, and to try to write a novel. It is also the story of a young woman who moves back to the city she left a few years earlier, and their relationship. Ask Me Tomorrow was produced at the Sheffield Playhouse in 1965, and as a radio play in 1966. The playscript was published by Samuel French in 1966. 3 women, 4 men

Vic Brown is a young man on the way up, he's got a job, money, ambitions and a new girlfriend, Ingrid Rothwell. His mate has even got a car - a Triumph TR3. He's never had it so good. But Ingrid wants to get married, it's the only respectable thing to do. She's a step above Vic and he knows it. If they marry they could move in with Ingrid's mother. He could move out from the house he grew up in. A real married couple. The world has begun to close in on Vic. A Kind of Loving is a seminal novel in British working-class fiction. First published in 1960 it has been adapted for stage, television, radio, and was made into an iconic film. A Kind of Loving made Stan Barstow one of the key voices of the 1960s cultural renaissance in British life. With a new afterword by David Collard.

This classic selection of the best of Stan Barstow's stories covers the last five decades of British life. A group of young tearaways on a night out that begins with horseplay and ends in tragedy; the loneliness of a drunken miner's wife; a war-shocked ex-sailor forced beyond endurance; and a factory worker finding his way through his marriage are just a few of the real and involving slices of life that feature ordinary men and women struggling and succeeding. Along with Alan Sillitoe and John Braine, Stan Barstow was considered one of the pioneers of the 1960s school of northern literary realism, paving the way for contemporary authors such Nick Hornby; "The Likes of Us" will be appreciated by all short story enthusiasts and readers of fiction and literature.