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Mr Worsley is a hard-to-believe portrait of life in a school in the 1960s. Despite its engaging sparkle of high-comedy, this is a true, autobiographical account of a young teacher's early steps into the profession at a period of educational change. The central character is the unforgettable Mr Worsley himself, headmaster extraordinaire, a figure of grandeur and insight, as well as improbable eccentricity, commanding a school which is as suc...

Joshua Damasio, a young journalist, is commissioned by a newspaper to write a profile of an elusive philosophy lecturer. He begins to unearth a terrifying criminal plan with horrendous potential consequences. And who is this philosopher? What's he up to? Is he a good man in search of real truths, or an obsessive, disturbed and sinister character offloading his life and fears?

This is a contemporary collection of poems, readable, wide ranging, provocative, challenging and amusing.

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Conversations with the Minister' is a satirical meditation on the state of education in England, based on a series of discussions between a bright, philosophically disposed Rosie Gracechurch, and a clever, if uncompromising, Secretary of State for Education. Current political thinking is ruthlessly explored, with the exchanges between Rosie and the Minister becoming increasingly unsettling and combative as they transact a ferocious battle of i...

Alex Edwards is happily married, with a successful career as a school inspector: until his life catastrophically begins to fall apart. This is the captivating, comic and disturbing story of an ambitious young man caught up in the contemporary world of regulation and politics, finding his personal and professional lives beginning to overlap in unexpected and alarming ways.