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Gentlemen & Players

  • Imprint: Corgi Audio

  • ISBN: 9780552153669

  • Length: 360  Minutes

  • Dimensions: 124mm x 24mm x 142mm

  • Weight: 210g

  • RRP: £17.99

Gentlemen & Players

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?

  • Imprint: Corgi Audio

  • ISBN: 9780552153669

  • Length: 360  Minutes

  • Dimensions: 124mm x 24mm x 142mm

  • Weight: 210g

  • RRP: £17.99

Reviews

  • "[A] gripping psychological thriller... Harris is one of our most accomplished novelists and <i>Gentlemen & Players</i>, with its pace, wit and acute observation, shows her at the top of her form"

    DAILY EXPRESS

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About the Author

Joanne Harris

Joanne Harris (Author) Joanne Harris’s Whitbread-shortlisted Chocolat was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is the author of many other bestselling novels, including Lollipop Shoes and Peaches for Monsieur le Curé, both also featuring Vianne Rocher, as is her new novel The Strawberry Thief. She has also written acclaimed novels in such diverse genres as fantasy based on Norse myth (Runemarks, Runelight, The Gospel of Loki), and the Malbry cycle of dark psychological thrillers (Gentlemen & Players, Blueeyedboy, and Different Class). Born in Barnsley, of an English father and a French mother, she spent fifteen years as a teacher before (somewhat reluctantly) becoming a full-time writer. In 2013, she was awarded an MBE. She lives in Yorkshire, plays bass and flute in a band first formed when she was sixteen, and works in a shed in her garden.

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