Life at the Top life in Warley in response to trouble with his children and the self-knowledge of what his life needs. 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
English novel been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Among popular novelists Daphne Du Maurier wrote "Rebecca", a mystery novel, in 1938 and W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) "Of Human Bondage" (1915), a strongly autobiographical novel, is generally agreed to be his masterpiece. In genre fiction Agatha Christie was an important writer of crime novels, short stories and plays, best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Christie's novels include "Murder on the Orient Express" (1934), "Death on the Nile" (1937), and "And Then There Were None" (1939). Another popular writer during the Golden Age of detective fiction