TOMKINSON’S SCHOOLDAYS Set in the frontier days of British education, when upper lips were stiff with cold and corporeal punishment was a required course. A savage, searing indictment of something or other. THE TESTING OF ERIC OLTHWAITE A boy becomes a man in the harsh world of the Depression. The rough, tough story of a stupefyingly boring Yorkshireman. ESCAPE FROM STALAG LUFT 112B A tale of courage and valor behind the lines in the Kaiser’s Germany. An inspiring story of camp life and a British officer who wouldn’t lie down. MURDER AT MOORSTONES MANOR Hugo and Dora drive down to see Mumsie and Dadsie-pie for a long weekend in the country. But it turns out to be longer than they thought. ACROSS THE ANDES BY FROG The stirring story of one man (and six frogs) who tried to defy the world in the greatest gamble of all. THE CURSE OF THE CLAW The terrifying story of a man who dabbled in the dark mysteries of the Orient, and lived to tell the tale. Or did he . . . ? WHINFREY’S LAST CASE Dashing, debonair Gerald Whinfrey saves his country twice a week. But in 1913, a German plot to start the First World War without telling anybody coincides with his holiday. Where do Whinfrey’s priorities lie? Has he got any? A knockabout tale of international intrigue. GOLDEN GORDON A torrid tale of football fanaticism in the 1930s. Super-fan Gordon Ottershaw supports a team that hasn’t won a match in six years. But worse is to come, and Gordon and his bicycle clips are reunited in a last desperate bid for glory. ROGER OF THE RAJ Roger Bartlesham comes of age in a world of 18-course breakfasts and 12 servants per leg. But when the Great War breaks out, Roger finds himself in a world of changing values and is forced by circumstances to the most despicable act known to the British Army.

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