be a 'lost classic'. Summer's End - 1976 This book grew out of the filming for 'Archie Hill Comes Homes' when Hill returned to the Black Country. He reflects that 'men of my generation are the last of the fully Black Country race, perhaps the last echo of it...". As in A Cage of Shadows, the book provides autobiographical stories from Hill's youth, though now told with a slightly mellower and more humorous tone as he realises that, notwithstanding the poverty of the depression, there were still 'some golden chapters of childhood; that not all my memories were dark and bleak'. Closed World of Love - 1976 This 110 page book focused on the life and being of Hill's wife's son Barry who suffered from cerebral palsy and lived a severely restricted life, requiring the use of a wheelchair and unable to speak. Hill describes how he is able to learn from his step-son by imaginatively putting himself in his place. The book won the 1977 Christopher Award. In reviewing the book, Tony Parker in the Sunday Times described Hill as "… one of the most sensitive contemporary autobiographical writers we have". The Second Meadow - 1982 Following three fictional works, Hill returned to his own life for his eighth book. He recounts three months he spent in 1976 living off the land on a remote country estate, making use of his poaching skills to kill animals for food. The title refers to his observation that only brave animals venture to the meadows far from the safety of the woods. He speculates that only great artists like Beethoven have reached the metaphorical second meadow and resolves to strive to find the equivalent places in his life. An Empty Glass - 1984 This book looks at Hill's life with particular emphasis on the impact of his alcoholism. It reiterates much of the autobiographical details from A Cage of Shadows but from a different perspective. As this was the last of his writing it has been speculated that he had run out of subjects to write about. Novels A Corridor of Mirrors - 1975 Sergeant Sahib - 1979 Prison Bars - 1980 Dark pastures - 1981 (juvenile fiction) Broadcasting Television The success of his first book led to Hill being given the opportunity to make a 4-part TV Series, Archie Hill Comes Home, which was broadcast in 1974. The films were: Episode