Adventures of a Civil Servant

Adventures of a Civil Servant is the third volume of Jim Mackley's acclaimed memoir series, A Civil Servant Remembers, chronicling a career that spanned nearly forty years in the British Civil Service. In this volume, Mackley recalls his years of service at home and abroad-from the unemployment exchanges of the Midlands to the ministries of Brussels and Mbabane-with candour, humour, and sharp social insight.

Beginning with his unlikely recruitment to the Ministry of Labour in the early 1960s...