Rank Insubordination!

<p>Rank Insubordination! is a comic and dramatic novel set during a year in a boys' English public school in the mid-1950s at the time of the cold war the Suez Crisis and the end of empire.</p><p>An austere headmaster struggles to deal with growing pupil rebellion led by the school's Lenin.</p><p>A despotic monitor desperately competes with the rugby captain forthe amorous attention of a young French woman.</p><p>A junior housemaster renowned for his punishment floggings gets into a tangled relationship with an assertive matron.</p><p>Parents struggle with the school's hierarchical ethos.</p><p>As serious unrest ferments everybody grapples with the post-war legacy and a future with continental Europe.</p><p>It's a lively story about a seminal period in the past; one with a modern resonance.</p>