A Skimpton Compendium

A Skimpton Compendium

by John C. Biggins
A Skimpton Compendium

A Skimpton Compendium

by John C. Biggins

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Overview

It's 1938 and the skies are darkening. On the playing fields of Faysgarth School, battle is about to commence. Skimpton, popular Deputy Head Boy, all-round good egg and sports supremo, needs a miracle if he's to beat arch rivals Rainingham with a first eleven still drunk from the previous night's 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 there's 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 don't always win the prize. For, whether the challenge is a chafing jockstrap or an infuriating history master, one thing's for certain: at Faysgarth nothing is ever quite what it seems.


A Skimpton Compendium takes up where Michael Palin's Ripping Yarns left off. If you like Lindsay Anderson's If and the stories of Richmal Crompton and PG Wodehouse, you'll love A Skimpton Compendium.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781838149512
Publisher: John C Biggins
Publication date: 08/08/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 364
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

John C. Biggins was born in Leeds in 1958. Having trained as a graphic designer, Biggins then studied theatre arts and embarked on a career treading the boards. Over the last 35 years, while appearing on television, radio and film, and at the National Theatre and other theatrical venues around the country, he has maintained an interest in graphic design, and - since 1999 - has run a web design business with clients drawn mainly from the literary world. As a writer, he has worked in the theatre, for BBC television and radio, and on various children's television projects. In the early 2000s he enjoyed a stint as a theatre critic. A keen collector of boys' annuals from the 1930s and 40s, in writing A Skimpton Compendium, his first work of fiction, Biggins was as much inspired by the line illustrations and covers as he was by the extraordinary stories themselves.

Table of Contents

  1. The Bombay Bombshell
  2. Skimpton Confused
  3. Et tu, Skimpton?
  4. On the Ropes!
  5. Varley's Aunt
  6. La Jirafa
  7. Skimpton Shows His Class


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