Ramsbottom Grant Arms Hotel in Market Place was the home of William and Daniel Grant, 19th century industrialists closely associated with the rise of the town and reputed to be the inspiration for the Cheeryble brothers in "Nicholas Nickleby" by Charles Dickens. The Grants' employees were paid in tokens that had to be redeemed at a public house owned by the company. The landlord converted the tokens into cash, but only after deducting threepence per person, which had to be spent on beer, a variation on the truck system. A network of roads and railways routed through Ramsbottom allowed for a
Brothers (Goldman novel) wildly imaginative ploys." Goldman himself later called it "a not-very-terrific book." Brothers (Goldman novel) Brothers is a thriller novel by William Goldman. It is the sequel to his 1972 novel "Marathon Man" and is Goldman's final novel. Daniel Woodrell wrote in the "Washington Post" that "The ultimate significance of the title becomes clear only in the surprising, explosive twist at the end." The BBC later aired a radio adaptation. It had mixed reviews, with Goldman himself rating it unfavorably. In the sequel, Doc "Scylla" Levy, brother of "Marathon Man"'s protagonist Babe Levy, survives his stabbing. The plot concerns an effort