Gentlemen and Players

by Joanne Harris | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0552770027 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wyldetwo of Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on 12/1/2006
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Journal Entry 1 by wyldetwo from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Friday, December 1, 2006
Synopsis
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 stirs. And a bitter grudge, hidden and carefully nurtured for thirteen years, is about to erupt. Who is Mole, the mysterious insider, whose cruel practical jokes are gradually escalating towards violence - and perhaps, murder? And how can an old and half-forgotten scandal, become the stone that brings down a giant?

Released 12 yrs ago (4/30/2011 UTC) at Urban Coffee Company, Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom

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Journal Entry 3 by nordie at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Saturday, April 30, 2011
picked up at today's meet

Journal Entry 4 by nordie at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Thursday, July 21, 2011
One I've been meaning to read for years (I met Joanne Harris years ago in Dublin and have a signed copy of this book as a result).

A cleverly written thriller, with two distinct voices - those of the Classics tutor, and that of the killer who has returned to St Oswald's school after 15 years to bring retribution over the death of their friend Leon.

It shows Harris' skill in that you dont really know who the killer is (or even really their sex) until the last few chapters of the book. Well you *do* know, in that they are the child of the school porter 15 years earlier, but who they are now, and who they are pretending to be is not known.

Released 12 yrs ago (7/30/2011 UTC) at Urban Coffee Company, Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom

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Journal Entry 6 by wingUrbanCoffeeJQwing at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Friday, August 5, 2011
Now available on the Official BookCrossing Zone bookshelf – aka the floor by the fire extinguishers! - at the Urban Coffee Company, Warstone Lane in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham.

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Journal Entry 7 by wingUrbanCoffeeJQwing at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Sunday, October 23, 2011
This book is no longer at UCC, so has been marked as Travelling pending another journal entry.

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