«Praise for the Wentworth Papers:

‘A splendid comic hero … cannot fail to engage the sympathy of everyone who has ever sat in a classroom either as master or pupil … Few books have made me laugh out loud quite so often’ Evening Standard

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‘I was often helpless with laughter. Not a book to be read in public’ The Oldie

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‘A truly comic invention’ The Guardian

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‘Masterly caricature’ Times Literary Supplement

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‘Wentworth turns out to be the hero of a work certain to be pigeon-holed as a minor classic by which people usually mean a classic more readable than the major kind … a man Mr Pooter would regard with awe but nevertheless recognise as a brother’ Spectator

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‘A book of such hilarious nature that I had to give up reading it in public’ New Statesman

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‘One of the funniest books ever’ Sunday Express

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