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...

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.

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...

Beneath the mirth and action of Playboy Pook is a serious attempt by the author to recapture those lush days of England before the war, and to get inside the minds of the young people who were fortunate enough to enjoy that fascinating era.The book is a sequel to Pook's Tender Years, enabling the reader to meet again some delightful friends of Pook's childhood and those adults like Aunt Mabel whose impression on youngsters remains throughout their lives. And no Pook book is complete...

Collections of humorous quotations are rare birds indeed, and the few in existence rely heavily on the celebrated wits to the extent that the quotes suffer from exposure fatigue and lose their impact, like old jokes. Ever since I began to write mirth novels many years ago I realized that humour, above all subjects, needs freshening up at regular intervals, and it has always been my ambition to help fill this gap with a broadside of my own original lines. As far as I can ascertain, nobody h...

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...

What a shock for Pook! What a blow for Honners! It's happened at last. As the massive Japanese war-machine remorselessly advances westward the Royal Marines are rushed to a remote desert island in the Indian Ocean to construct a defence base against the enemy.Pook and Honners are the weak links in this scheme, and characteristically Honners' first action is toestablish a lucrative trading-post, while Pook organises a dance for some visiting nurses and predictably falls in lov...

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...

Having learned to dance like a dervish by the age of nine at Madam Robinson's Dancing Academy for Young Ladies, Pook set his heart on leaving school in order to follow in the talented footsteps of his Uncle Dick as an international gigolo.Being over-sized, precocious and fascinatingly plain, he tried to overcome these professional handicaps by the sheer talent of his feet—his educated floor-polishers as he called them.Simultaneously he continued his struggle to become a cel...

Peter Pook has graced many professions in his time, and has escaped from many difficult situations. In this latest adventure he takes up the task of teaching, bringing to his duties that unique blend of dedicated hilarity and profound near-scholarship which his thousands of readers find so hard to do without.The reader is taken right into the staffroom and classrooms of Cudford Secondary Modern School, to meet the very people we knew in the happiest days of our lives—the fat boy who...

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...

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—...