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Stanley Middleton FRSL (1 August 1919 – 25 July 2009) was a British novelist. He was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire and educated at High Pavement School, Stanley Road, Nottingham and University College Nottingham.

Middleton began writing at university and in 1958 published A Short Answer. He taught English at High Pavement Grammar School for many years, and was a highly prolific author. In 1974, his novel Holiday won the Booker prize. Her Three Wise Men, his 44th novel, was published in 2008.

Middleton was an accomplished organist, playing regularly at St Mark's Methodist Church, Ravensworth Road in Bulwell and stepping in to cover others, often at Mansfield Road Baptist Church in…

Fiction
A Short Answer (1958)
Harris's Requiem (1960)
A Serious Woman (1961)
The Just Exchange (1962)
Two's Company (1963)
Him They Compelled (1964)
Terms of Reference (1966)
The Golden Evening (1968)
Wages of Virtue (1969)
Apple of the Eye (1970)
Brazen Prison (1971)
Cold Gradations (1972)
A Man Made of Smoke (1973)
Holiday (1974)
Distractions (1975)
Still Waters (1976)
Ends and Means (1977)
Two Brothers (1978)
In a Strange Land (1979)
The Other Side (1980)
Blind Understanding (1982)
Entry into Jerusalem (1983)
The Daysman (1984)
Valley of Decision (1985)
An After-Dinner's Sleep (1986)
After a Fashion (1987)
Recovery (1988)
Vacant Places (1989)
Changes and Chances (1990)
Beginning to End…

Booker prize 1974: Holiday