A LOAD OF OLD TRIPE (SIGNED COPY)
PHINN, Gervase
From L & S.D. GREEN, THORNTON-CLEVELEYS, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller Since 11 January 2000
Quantity: 1From L & S.D. GREEN, THORNTON-CLEVELEYS, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller Since 11 January 2000
Quantity: 1About this Item
Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 11691
Bibliographic Details
Title: A LOAD OF OLD TRIPE (SIGNED COPY)
Publisher: Michaeal Joseph, London
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: New
Signed: Signed by Author
Edition: First Edition, First Impression.
About this title
For eleven-year old James Joseph Johnson (or Jimmy for short) life is not always straightforward. In fact, things can be quite complicated, and don't always turn out as he'd planned . . .
Born in 1946, Jimmy lives with his Mum and Dad in a shiny red brick terraced house in South Yorkshire near the steel works. Sometimes the air is thick and metallic tasting, with bits of soot floating around like little black snowflakes. Despite all this, Jimmy wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
His very best friend, Ignatius Plunkett, is a scrawny boy with a sharp beak of a nose, ears like jug handles and a mop of jet black hair. Micky is his rather 'posh' friend from the big houses down the road. The boys get into a few scrapes in the year leading up to the eleven-plus exams, but will they come out on top in the end?
Will Jimmy survive a week looking after Butch, the temperamental, barrel-bodied bull terrier? Will the truth about the trip to buy Dad's tripe ever come out? What really happens to Jimmy's Mum's coffee and walnut cake, and will the mystery of the missing locket ever get solved?
PRAISE FOR GERVASE PHINN
'Enchanting' Women's Own
'Hilarious and hair-raising' Sunday Times
'A natural storyteller' The Times Educational Supplement
'An enchanting montage of experiences. Colourful funny and honest' Sunday Express
'He has a marvellous ear for one-liners'Yorkshire Post
'Uproarious and touching by turns' Daily Mail
'Gervase Phinn's memoirs have made him a hero in school staff-rooms' Daily Telegraph
'A born raconteur' Guardian
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