Clifford Hanley

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Clifford Hanley


Born
in Shettleston, Glasgow, Scotland
October 28, 1922

Died
August 09, 1999

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Clifford Leonard Clark "Cliff" Hanley was a Scottish journalist, novelist, playwright and broadcaster. He was educated at Eastbank Academy in Glasgow.

During the late 1930s, he was active in the Independent Labour Party. During the Second World War he was a conscientious objector.

He wrote a number of books, including Dancing in the Street, an account of his early life in Glasgow (in its contemporaneous serialisation in The Evening Times, retitled My Gay Glasgow), The Taste of Too Much (1960), a coming-of-age novel about a secondary schoolboy, and The Scots.

During the 1960s and 1970s, Cliff Hanley published several thrillers under the pen-name Henry Calvin.

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Average rating: 3.54 · 158 ratings · 23 reviews · 22 distinct worksSimilar authors
Dancing in the Streets

3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1958 — 14 editions
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The Taste of Too Much

3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1960 — 8 editions
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Prissy

3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1978 — 3 editions
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History of Scotland

3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1986 — 8 editions
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The Scots

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1980 — 5 editions
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Another Street Another Dance

3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1984 — 5 editions
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The unspeakable Scot

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1977 — 2 editions
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Burns Country: The Travels ...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1975
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The red haired bitch

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