Life at the Top Life at the Top Life At The Top is the third novel by the English author John Braine, first published in the UK by Eyre & Spottiswoode and in the US by Houghton Mifflin & Co. in 1962. It continues the story of the life and difficulties of Joe Lampton, an ambitious young man of humble origins. A 1965 film adaptation of the novel was made starring Laurence Harvey. In September 2012, BBC television finally broadcast a two-part television adaptation of "Room at the Top" that had been delayed because of copyright difficulties. Matthew McNulty was in the lead role.
Andrew Martin (novelist) Andrew Martin (novelist) Andrew Martin (born 6 July 1962) is an English novelist and journalist. Martin was brought up in Yorkshire, studied at Merton College, Oxford and qualified as a barrister. He has since worked as a freelance journalist for a number of publications while writing novels, starting with "Bilton", a comic novel about journalists, and "The Bobby Dazzlers", a comic novel set in the North of England, for which he was named "Spectator" Young Writer of the Year. "The Guardian" claimed "Bilton" and "The Bobby Dazzlers" "rank high in the lists of the best comic novels published in the