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Other Side Of The Dale Th by Gervase Phinn
Category: Fiction
This is a warm, funny and mostly true account of the first year that Gervase Phinn spent as a schools' inspector in North Yorkshire. His brilliantly portrayed cast includes his fellow inspectors who range from endearing to eccentric, sporting lords of the manor, Ministry bigwigs, formidable teaching nun ...Show more
Our Cat Cuddles (Big Book) by Gervase Phinn
Category: Picture Books | Series: Child's Play Library
Rich in language, humour and rhyme, this hilarious tale is perfectly complemented by Amanda Montgomery-Higham's witty illustrations. Lizzie and Dominic desperately want a kitten but they get much more than they bargain for! 32 Pages - 450 x 450mm
Out of the Woods But Not Over the Hill by Gervase Phinn
Category: Fiction
For Gervase Phinn growing old is not about a leisurely walk to the pub for a game of dominoes or snoozing in his favourite armchair. As this sparkling collection of his very best humorous writing shows, he may be 'out of the woods' but he is certainly not 'over the hill'.Looking back over more than sixt ...Show more
Over Hill And Dale by Gervase Phinn
Category: Fiction
Continuing where "The Other Side of the Dale" ended, Gervase Phinn begins his second year as a schools inspector in Yorkshire. His colourful cast of characters are now becoming firm favourites - the mostly mad staff at County Hall, the teachers who range from saints to stand-ins, and of course the child ...Show more
Secrets at the Little Village School by Gervase Phinn
Category: Fiction | Series: Little Village School Ser.
The fifth Little Village School novel.'It's a small village is Barton-in-the-Dale, Mrs Stirling, ' said the shopkeeper. 'You ought to know that by now. Nothing can be kept secret for too long. News travels fast.'In the little village of Barton-in-the-Dale, long-hidden secrets are bubbling to the surface ...Show more
The Heart of the Dales by Gervase Phinn
Category: Fiction
Gervase Phinn is back with his tales of life as a schools inspector in Yorkshire. His colourful cast of characters have now become firm favourites - the mostly mad staff at County Hall as well as the children themselves who find ways of embarrassing the school inspectors with innocent ease. We reconvene ...Show more
The Little Village School by Gervase Phinn
Category: Fiction | Series: Little Village School Ser.
She was wearing red shoes! With silver heels! Elisabeth Devine causes quite a stir on her arrival in the village. No one can understand why the head of a big inner city school would want to come to sleepy little Barton-in-the-Dale, to a primary with more problems than school dinners. And that's not eve ...Show more
The School at the Top of the Dale by Gervase Phinn
Category: Fiction | Series: Top of the Dale Ser.
The first novel in a delightful new series from bestselling author Gervase Phinn Newly qualified teacher Tom Dwyer has been given his first post in Risingdale, a sleepy little village at the very top of the Yorkshire Dales. Unsure if he'll ever fit into this close-knit community, Tom joins a motley sta ...Show more
The Virgin Mary's Got Nits by Gervase Phinn
Category: Children's Fiction
A touching and hilarious gift book of poetry and prose on the subject of children and Christmas from the Yorkshire school inspector and bestselling author of the Dales series and Little Village School series.
Up and Down in the Dales by Gervase Phinn
Category: Biography
From the "Sunday Times" bestselling author Gervase Phinn comes a fourth book of reminiscences about life as a Yorkshire Dales school inspector that will continue to delight and charm fans across the globe. Life for the Gervase Phinn is about to become not unlike the rambling hills of the Dales themselve ...Show more
VIRGIN MARYS GOT NITS by PHINN GERVASE
Category: Humour
A touching and hilarious gift book of poetry and prose on the subject of children and Christmas from the Yorkshire school inspector and bestselling author of the Dales series and Little Village School series.