Gentlemen & Players: the first in a trilogy of gripping and twisted psychological thrillers from bestselling author Joanne Harris - Softcover

"[A] gripping psychological thriller... Harris is one of our most accomplished novelists and Gentlemen & Players, with its pace, wit and acute observation, shows her at the top of her form" (DAILY EXPRESS)

"[A] delicious black comedy ... the plot is so cleverly constructed, the tension so unflagging, you'd think she'd been writing thrillers all her life" (DAILY MAIL)

"With a lightness of touch, Harris illuminates just how resentment of privilege and exclusion can lead to violent resolutions... Marvellously mischievous" (GOOD HOUSEKEEPING)

"[A] clever story of obsession and revenge... Ms Harris has scored another success" (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

"A classic whodunnit with the characters carefully crafted and the tension at a knife edge" (SUNDAY EXPRESS (TOP TEN FICTION 2005))

'A clever story of obsession and revenge...another success' Sunday Telegraph

At St Oswald's, a long-established boys' grammar school in Malbry in Yorkshire, a new year has just begun. For the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and Information Technology rule the world; and Roy Straitley, the eccentric veteran Latin master, is finally - reluctantly - contemplating retirement.

But beneath the little rivalries, petty disputes and everyday crises of the school, a darker undercurrent stirs. And a bitter grudge, hidden and carefully nurtured for thirteen years, is about to erupt.

'Wildly entertaining...a literary gobstopper with an aniseed heart' Independent on Sunday

'A delicious black comedy...the plot is so cleverly constructed, the tension so unflagging, you'd think she'd been writing thrillers all her life' Daily Mail

'Book groups of the world, watch out' Guardian
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