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Jannicott can be read as a sequence of stories or as a form of novel.
The time-span ranges from 1930 to the early 1990s and deals essentially with eleven chapters in Bernard Jannicott´s life. Jannicott is a native of Ketilsby, a provincial coastal town in the North of England. During most of the book he is Senior English master at the local grammar school. He encounters various domestic issues: his relationships with wife, children and an old uncle, plus an extra-marital liaison with one of his senior girl pupils. Otherwise, he helps to create a pageant about the town´s history, believes he has seen a child murderer, forms a relationship with the widow of a former colleague, is pestered by a local tabloid journalist as he tries to mourn his wife´s death and becomes involved with the misfortunes of a fellow-townsman, like Jannicott a former army officer during the war.
In the final episode - "Retrievements" - Jannicott confronts both the far past and the immediate present. Throughout the book, the atmosphere of Jannicott´s Ketilsby - a fishing port with a long Nonconformist tradition - is vividly evoked.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Jack Debney was born in Cheshire and brought up in Grimsby, where his mother´s family was long established. Educated locally and then at Leeds and Warwick Universities.
He was a lecturer in English at the University of Alexandria, 1963-66. From 1970 until his retirement in 2006 he was a Lektor in the English Departement, Philipps-Univerität, Marburg, Germany.
Over the years he has published prose and poetry in numerous journals including "Stand", "New Edinburgh Review", "Panurge", "Passport and Mediterraneans".
He has been represented in "New Stories" (Arts Council) and "Firebird" (Penguin). He was a winner of the Manchester Open Poetry Competition in 1991 and his collection of poems "Clowns and Puritans" was published by White Adder Press, Edinburgh, 1999. "The Crocodile´s Head and Other Stories" was published by Redbeck Press, Bradford, in 2002, which also put out "The Alexandrian Charlie Chaplin and Other Stories" in 2005.
Jack Debney is married with two children and two grandchildren.

Jack Debney was born in Cheshire and brought up in Grimsby, where his mother´s family was long established. Educated locally and then at Leeds and Warwick Universities.
He was a lecturer in English at the University of Alexandria, 1963-66. From 1970 until his retirement in 2006 he was a Lektor in the English Departement, Philipps-Univerität, Marburg, Germany.
Over the years he has published prose and poetry in numerous journals including "Stand", "New Edinburgh Review", "Panurge", "Passport and Mediterraneans".
He has been represented in "New Stories" (Arts Council) and "Firebird" (Penguin). He was a winner of the Manchester Open Poetry Competition in 1991 and his collection of poems "Clowns and Puritans" was published by White Adder Press, Edinburgh, 1999. "The Crocodile´s Head and Other Stories" was published by Redbeck Press, Bradford, in 2002, which also put out "The Alexandrian Charlie Chaplin and Other Stories" in 2005.
Jack Debney is married with two children and two grandchildren.

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