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Gentlemen and players

Paperback • 2005 • English • 1. edition

Gentlemen and players

By Joanne Harris

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About the book

The place is St Oswald's, an old and long-established boys' grammar school in the north of England. A new year has just begun, and for the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and Information Technology rule the world and Roy Straitley, Latin master, eccentric, and veteran of St Oswald's, is finally - reluctantly - contemplating retirement. But beneath the little rivalries, petty disputes and everyday crises of the school, a darker undercurrent st...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9780385609524

Publisher

Doubleday

Published year

2005

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Gentlemen and players

Format

Paperback

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