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  • Gentlemen and Players

  • By: Joanne Harris
  • Narrated by: Derek Jacobi
  • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (25 ratings)

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Gentlemen and Players

By: Joanne Harris
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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 13 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?
©2007 Frogspawn Ltd
Literature & Fiction Suspense Fiction
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"A gripping psychological thriller...Harris is one of our most accomplished novelists, and Gentlemen and Players, with its pace, wit, and acute observation, shows her at the top of her form." ( Daily Express)

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A Grand Experience

Slow start but good tale, unexpected ending, well read, most enjoyable would recommend. Give it a read.

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EXCELLENT AND UNEXPECTED

Sir Derek holds the listener, right in the palm of his hand, immediately!! WONDERFUL BOOK!!

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