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The Man Who Won The Pools
Phil Tombs's wins almost a quarter of a million pounds. Many try to take for a ride and relieve him of his new found fortune, but Phil is no fool, and he makes an enterprising and amusing hero as he learns the social nuances and the power of money, going from one adventure to another with what has been described as ‘proletarian gusto’.
Full Term
Duncan Pattullo is thinking of re-marrying, although his former wife causes difficulties. His intended is also providing gossip for the college, but that is as nothing compared with Watershute, who abandons his family, conducts an affair in Venice, and is drunk at High Table. Things get very serious when he appears to be involved in treason.
A Use Of Riches
Rupert Craine is a wealthy, cultured banker, and art collector. Something strange occurs when drawings byhis wife’s first husband suddenly appear on the market and a telegram summons Craine and his wife to Italy. There, the past grotesquely and irresistibly explodes into the present.
Parlour Four
A boy is kind with unexpected consequences. A lover gives a ring to his girl, but doesn’t appreciate its history and value. In Oxford, the Bodleian is mysteriously empty, whilst a don becomes a bestselling author. In another tale, a cruel ending brings the absurdity of death into focus. All of the stories focus on life’s ironies and absurdities.
Memorial Service
Duncan Pattullo returns to his old college. The Provost is trying to secure a benefaction from a charity. A complication is the presence of Ivo Mumford. He is badly behaved and far from a credit to the college. Stewart explores the complicated relationships between them all and turns an ordinary situation into something that will grip the reader.
Avery's Mission
Bannerman is on his way to Florence. On the plane, he meets Avery, who is travelling to see his divorced father, and is unwittingly used by his domineering mother. Bannerman is drawn into matters and a complex situation develops, exacerbated by Avery’s mother, a dominatrix who uses sex-appeal and a natural upper class manner to exert her will.
The Gaudy
The first in the acclaimed ‘A Staircase in Surrey’ quintet opens in Oxford at the eponymous annual dinner laid on by Fellows. Patullo finds himself embroiled in the problems faced by a Cabinet Minister and also Mogridge - famous for an account of his adventures in South America. But it doesn’t stop there, as Pattullo acquires problems of his own.
Appleby's Other Story
During a walk to Elvedon House, palatial home of the Tythertons, Sir John Appleby and Chief Constable Colonel Pride are stunned to find a police van and two cars parked outside. Wealthy Maurice Tytherton has been found shot dead, and Appleby is faced with a number of suspects.
The Aylwins
This novel yields high comedy and mystery surrounding an Oxford College, told by a schoolmaster narrator. Supported by his wife, Arthur Aylwin’s desires to be Provost of the College – so much so he is prepared to give up a University Chair so as to achieve it - but there are family scandals and other prejudices and situations to deal with.
From London Far
As Meredith, an academic, stands in a Bloomsbury tobacconist waiting for his two ounces of tobacco, he murmurs a verse of 'London, a Poem' and is astounded when a trap door opens into the London Catacombs, bringing him face to face with the Horton Venus, by Titian.
