Dear Popsy

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Pub Date 1 Nov 2013 | Archive Date 16 Nov 2013

Description

Welcome to St Clouds, an exclusive public school where the boys prefer rouge to rugger and bondage to bunsen burners. Here, courtesy of new boy Basil Leaf and the postcards he writes to his long-suffering father, youll meet the criminally pretty Gemini Tarqquogan, who paints his nails scarlet and wears frocks and feathers; Courtney Durham, who runs up curtains on his sewing machine; Hugo Bletchworth, keen on leatherwear and flagellation; Father Absolute, Basils gin-swilling Father Confessor; Rory OBrien, St Clouds rugger coach and Courtney Durhams close companion.Then there are Basils camp followers, so to speak: Nipper Thompson, a spirited jockey sacked by his guvnor for wearing earrings at the morning gallop; Maurice Le Vere, a former ballet dancer and owner of The Last Faerie, notorious watering hole; Sir Geoffrey Grassington, a local magistrate and the proprietor of a palace of pleasure, wherein. Basil and his chums bring comfort to wealthy gentlemen of unusual tastes, until the men from MI5 move in...

Welcome to St Clouds, an exclusive public school where the boys prefer rouge to rugger and bondage to bunsen burners. Here, courtesy of new boy Basil Leaf and the postcards he writes to his...


A Note From the Publisher

Eric Bishop-Potter is a former Fleet Street journalist and public relations executive. He wrote Dear Popsy on Sunday mornings ‘before anyone was up’ and on trains travelling to and from work. He is the author of Jimmy, Mrs Fisher and Me, and A Ruined Boy.

Eric Bishop-Potter is a former Fleet Street journalist and public relations executive. He wrote Dear Popsy on Sunday mornings ‘before anyone was up’ and on trains travelling to and from work. He is...


Advance Praise

Michael Palin, of Monty Python fame, has described the book as very, very funny, wonderful turns of phrase, carries on where Decline and Fall left off, I think I am jealous. The comic story is told in a series of postcards written by the books feckless protagonist, Basil Leaf, to his long-suffering father Popsy, after he is packed off to boarding school.

Michael Palin, of Monty Python fame, has described the book as very, very funny, wonderful turns of phrase, carries on where Decline and Fall left off, I think I am jealous. The comic story is told...


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ISBN 9781783068166
PRICE £3.99 (GBP)

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