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  • The Cuckoos of Batch Magna

    by Peter Maughan ...
    Series Book 1 - The Batch Magna Chronicles
    Welcome to Batch Magna, a place where anything might happen. And often does...When Sir Humphrey Strange, 8th Baronet and squire of Batch Magna, departs this world for the Upper House, what’s left of his estate passes, through the ancient law of entailment, to distant relative Humph, an amiable, overweight short-order cook from the Bronx.Sir Humphrey Franklin T. Strange, 9th Baronet and squire of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Love and Miss Harris

    by Peter Maughan ...
    Series Book 1 - The Company of Fools
    Titus Llewellyn-Gwlynne, actor/manager of the Red Lion Theatre, has lost a backer who was going to fund a theatrical tour – when unexpected salvation appears.Their home theatre in the East End of London having been bombed during the war, The Red Lion Touring Company embarks on a tour of Britain to take a play written by their new benefactress into the provinces.As they make their vagabond, singing ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall

    by Peter Maughan ...
    Series Book 2 - The Batch Magna Chronicles
    Welcome to Batch Magna, a place where anything might happen. And often does...When the old squire of Batch Magna died, the life of distant relative Humphrey, an amiable, overweight short-order cook from the Bronx, turned into a movie. Now, as Sir Humphrey, he has acquired not only a new title but also a new love: the Honourable Clementine Wroxley. He and Clem plan to marry, settle into Batch Hall ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Clouds in a Summer Sky

    by Peter Maughan ...
    Series Book 4 - The Batch Magna Chronicles
    Welcome to Batch Magna, a place where anything might happen. And often does...Life in an old steam boat deep in the Welsh Borders holds numerous charms, but the Commander’s wife Priny is suffering from arthritis, a condition not at all improved by their water-based lifestyle. The couple take up an offer from Humphrey, the squire of Batch Hall, of a straight swap: their boat, the Batch Castle, for ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Batch Magna Caper

    by Peter Maughan ...
    Series Book 3 - The Batch Magna Chronicles
    Welcome to Batch Magna, a place where anything might happen. And often does...A hapless gang of crooks, led by pawnbroker Harold Sneed, have managed pull off ‘the big one’: a wages snatch at a factory in Shrewsbury. Two gang members take the money back to Birmingham by train, changing at a station almost on the doorstep of Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall.It’s there that things start to unravel. The ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Ghost of Artemus Strange

    by Peter Maughan ...
    Series Book 5 - The Batch Magna Chronicles
    Welcome to Batch Magna, a place where anything might happen. And often does...Sir Humphrey has offered to play Father Christmas at the local hospital, but disaster strikes when he realises he won’t be able to buy the sack of toys he’d promised the children.Rupert, a gentleman of the road, is found asleep in an old car in the Hall’s coach house. He is scrubbed up and given a room at the Hall, where ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    by H.F. Ellis ...
    Series Book 1 - The Wentworth Papers
    The classic fictional memoirs of a hapless schoolmaster.There is chalk in his fingernails and paper darts fill the air as A.J. Wentworth, mathematics master at Burgrove Preparatory School, unwittingly opens the doors that lead not to knowledge but to chaos and confusion.In his collected papers he sets out the truth about the fishing incident in the boot room, the real story about the theft of the ... Read more

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  • A Dead Man and Doggie Delights

    by Aleksa Baxter ...
    Series Book 1 - A Maggie May and Miss Fancypants Mystery
    "This book has everything that makes it a good cozy. Light romance, devoted dog person, curious protagonist, and a mystery."When Maggie May Carver moved to Baker Valley, Colorado she wanted two things: to open a dog barkery with her best friend, and to take care of her aging grandpa.But when her grandpa is accused of murder--a crime he may well have committed--Maggie finds herself in the role of ... Read more

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  • The Swan Song of A.J. Wentworth

    by H.F. Ellis ...
    Series Book 3 - The Wentworth Papers
    The last of the humorous fictional memoirs of a hapless assistant schoolmaster.It is to be A.J. Wentworth’s final appearance on the scholastic scene. Once more he dons his cap and gown – or, to be more precise, Rawlinson’s cap and gown – and returns to Burgrove for just one more time.His final term includes a brief but broadening visit to the United States, in addition to the usual intellectual ... Read more

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  • The Retirement of A.J. Wentworth

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    Series Book 2 - The Wentworth Papers
    The second of the humorous fictional memoirs of a hapless schoolmaster.A. J. Wentworth, formerly teacher of mathematics at Burgrove prep school for boys, now passes his retirement years in a typically English rural village where somehow he seems unable to stay out of trouble.Wentworth lurches from mishap to misunderstanding, whether at the Conservative Association or the local dramatic society, ... Read more

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  • Mr Finchley Goes to Paris

    by Victor Canning ...
    Series Book 2 - Classic Canning
    Book 2 of the classic trilogy of humorous adventuresAn ebullient Mr Finchley is about to propose marriage to a lady he had rescued from mishap, when he is sent to Paris by his firm.There he manages to upset a boat, adopt a stray orphan and get himself kidnapped. The fine tangle he gets into takes some unravelling! Only when eventually back in London does he complete the proposal of marriage that ... Read more

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