Pilling Always Pays is a 1954 family saga novel by the British writer Thomas Armstrong. It is the second in the Crowther Chronicles and the sequel to his 1940 bestseller The Crowthers of Bankdam.[1] It follows the further adventures of the Crowther family of mill owners now led in the 1930s by Sam Pilling, the grandson of Simeon Crowther. A review in News Chronicle described it as being "as good as The Crowthers of Bankdam".[2] Two further novels in the series Sue Crowther's Marriage and Our London Office were published.

Pilling Always Pays
First edition
AuthorThomas Armstrong
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
PublisherCollins
Publication date
1954
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Pages447
Preceded byThe Crowthers of Bankdam 
Followed bySue Crowther's Marriage 

It was named as a best seller for the week in The West Australian newspaper on 24 December 1954.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Alfred p.7
  2. ^ Time & Tide, Volume 35. Time and Tide Publishing Company, 1954 p.1639
  3. ^ "Best Sellers this week". The West Australian. Perth: National Library of Australia. 24 December 1954. p. 18. Retrieved 6 October 2022.

Bibliography

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  • Alfred, Thomas. Sequels: Incorporating Aldred & Parker's 'Sequel Stories'. Association of Assistant Librarians , 1955.
  • Snell, Keith. The Bibliography of Regional Fiction in Britain and Ireland, 1800–2000. Routledge, 2017.