Room at the Top (novel) death and his successful scheme to marry upwards. He is reassured that nobody blames him for Alice's death – but he knows this is wrong, and the book closes with him aware of his conscience, forced to live with his guilt and his responsibility for what has happened. Room at the Top (novel) Room at the Top is a novel by John Braine, first published in the United Kingdom by Eyre & Spottiswoode in 1957, about the rise of an ambitious young man of humble origin, and the socio-economic struggles undergone in realising his social ambitions in post-war Britain. A
British Museum Reading Room of Anabel Donald's 1994 novel is the ceiling of the Reading Room, where the denouement is set. Alfred Hitchcock used the Reading Room and the dome of the British Museum as a location for the climax of his first sound film "Blackmail" (1929). Other movies with key scenes in the Reading Room include "Night of the Demon" (1957) and in the 2001 Japanese anime OVA "Read or Die", the Reading Room is used as the secret entrance to the British Library's fictional "Special Operations Division". Probably the first work of fiction in which the British Museum Reading Room plays an