A Skimpton Compendium

The skies are darkening and battle is about to commence. Skimpton popular Deputy Head Boy and sports supremo at Faysgarth School needs a miracle if hes to beat arch rivals Rainingham with a first eleven still drunk from the previous nights debauchery. Further obstacles include mercurial school scoundrel Marcus Dent Constable Stubbs the irredeemably dim local bobby a cricketing vicar with a unique taste in flannels and the lethally myopic Colonel Coombes menace of the chemistry laboratory. A motley assortment of grubby dimwits suspicious outsiders and sinister socialists means more trouble ahead for our heroic House Captain and his irrepressible fag Piggot – and theres even an escapade in the trenches with an affable George Orwell as he fights fascists in the Spanish Civil War. In this juicy collection of humorous stories Skimpton finds that in a world beset by colonial conundrums sexual tension political skulduggery and the occasional stinky third-former the immutable values of King and country dont always win the prize. For whether the challenge is a chafing jockstrap or an infuriating history master one things for certain: at Faysgarth nothing is ever quite what it seems. A Skimpton Compendium takes up where Michael Palins Ripping Yarns left off. If you like Lindsay Andersons If and the stories of Richmal Crompton and PG Wodehouse youll love A Skimpton Compendium.