Banking on Form is an amusing and irreverent record of a powerfully-built young athlete who became caught up in the world of banking. Problems confront young Pook as he struggles to combine the art of banking with sex, body-building and a football career—a feat which understandably threatens to overwhelm him until a clever Austrian gentleman steps in with a timely solution.

So many readers requested a sequel to Pook in Business that Pook's Curiosity Shop was a must.This time Pook enters the high class antique world in partnership with the beautiful Olga, and financed by Honners. At once we plunge into the antique dealer's life of auctions, private buying and other means of unearthing the treasures essential to this unique trade.Set against Pook's accurate background of business practice we see our hero encounter the hazards of the profession i...

Banking on Form was so funny people said, that theydaren't read it in public places—but Pook in Boots iseven funnier!Leaving the Bank, Pook continues his aggressivecareer in the Royal Marines, where he mixes with earlsand orphans—leading them all cheerfully to perdition,willingly aided by the smallest Marine on record, theHon. Lesley Pilkington-Goldberg.Opposing Pook and his dislike of discipline is thatmagnificent character Se...

Lieutenant Pook sounds pretty good, at least it did to Pook himself, who was seconded to the Royal Ramsami Navy to undertake the strangest mission ever to befall a naval officer. Precisely what that mission was, though, Pook never quite discovered.Assisted by Honners as navigating officer, Peter Pook sets out from the Eastern state of Ramsam as crack naval diver of the Fleet, on board the mystery ship Soonong. In command of the vessel is one of the toughest characters ever to sail t...

The author was quite overwhelmed at the way the antique trade took Pook in Business to their hearts. Some wrote to him praising the accurate background of the book—Pook spent ten happy years in the game of polishing-rags to riches—albeit bemoaning certain TV programmes which have made the customers too knowledgeable for comfort.Pook lets us share in the thrills and nightmares of acquiring one's first shop, and opening it to see if the public will actually pay money for the debris o...

Pook soon discovers how Scandalous Scandinavia is a hotbed of temptation as he travels through Europe to Sexy Sweden, Naughty Norway and Daring Denmark in this latest side-splitting mirth-maker of erotic encounters and unrivalled adventures.However, he finds two insurmountable hazards in the shape of the beautiful Olga who insists on chaperoning him, and Honners—now a director of Cudford Continental Coach Company—who pays him a cutprice salary as tour courier, and makes him an unsu...

You'll enjoy Pook and Honners in the Indian Navy, savouring the sweet life of the East. Honners breaks with naval tradition by opening a boarding-house in Bombay, providing a base for his ever-growing collection of war trophies.But that ruthless disciplinarian, Commander Bray, brings the war against Japan to their notice, and they experience the terrors of night convoy sailing. Here Pook becomes the first Navigating Officer ever to witness the sun rising in the west without another...

Once again Pook comes up with another original formula for mirth and sheer reading pleasure which his fans enjoy so much. Schoolmaster Pook often illustrates his lessons by anecdotes from the War. His pupils like this too, but they like it even more when nostalgia so grips Pook that he seems to reminisce himself into the past before their very eyes.The boys and girls of Cudford Secondary School see Pook making love on the summit of the Great Pyramid of Egypt; being chased by German...

Running an apartment house is the short cut to easy money in today's world, so Pook purchases a huge Victorian house and converts it to what he calls a vertical village in order to bolster his ailing career as a writer.This formidable enterprise is backed by the beautiful Olga and Pook's aggressive little ally Honners—but there are snags even in the lettting game. Such as eccentric lodgers and difficult clients. But the biggest snag of all for Pook is the sultry siren Denise, a fem...

One of the most rewarding aspects of a writer's work is to receive letters from readers asking for more information about his characters. Some requested details of Pook's early days, while others wanted to hear more about that fiery little nobleman, Honners.In Pook's Tender Years Peter Pook has tried to satisfy both demands by drawing on the most amusing anecdotes of those formative years from eight to nineteen, and many of these stories are nearer the truth than he cares to admit—...

Pook's adventures in the Royal Ramsami Navy—started in Pook Sahib and Pook's Eastern Promise—continue here in Pook's China Doll with a remarkable tale set on the notorious China Coast.Pook and Honners sail East on board the Soonong under the harsh discipline of Commander Bray to carry out a secret mission of locating a spy. Honners uses the voyage to incease his collection of antiques and other objets d'art, before teaming with Pook to track down the spy—a beautiful woman whom Pook...

Pook & Partners introduces another dynamic personality of the Pook fun club—Al Newman, a high-pressure salesman who persuades Pook to enter the property world in pursuit of that fortune he sought in Pook in Business.One of the snags in such a partnership is Al's wife, Lorna, who regards Pook as her partner too—though not always in a strictly professional capacity.How Pook, with the assistance of Honners, ecapes from her clutches by falling into the jaws of a goodtime girl c...