On the Shelves The Final Warning Peter Isdell-Carpenter (C3 1954-59) £14.63 This is the exhilarating story of one young man’s desperate race to foil a meticulous plot to overthrow the American government. In post-Trump America, the besieged new president Adam Sukova is grappling with a vicious threat gaining traction between the stars and stripes. As American freedom hangs by a thread, he must resort to a desperate measure. His young White House intern is dispatched on a terrifying mission to discover the truth and prevent the nation’s destruction before it’s too late. If it isn’t too late already.
Is freedom already lost? What is really going wrong inside the most powerful nation in the free world? The Final Warning is an arresting and timely contemporary thriller from a master storyteller. It is steeped in conspiracy, diverse characters, and an incredibly deft knowledge of American consciousness – at times disturbing, at others heart-warming, at times light-hearted, and at others unbelievably significant.
Public Schools and the Second World War
girls’ public schools. What was that public school spirit in 1939 and how did it and its products cope with, and contribute to, the requirements of a modern global conflict both physically and intellectually? The book answers these questions by, for example, examining the public schools’ role in the development and operations of the RAF, in unconventional warfare and codebreaking. At home there was bombing, evacuation and the threat of invasion. Finally, the authors study how public schools shaped the way the war was interpreted culturally and how they responded to victory in 1945 and hopes of a new social order. This fascinating book draws widely on primary source material and personal accounts of inspiring courage and endurance.
Frank Price: Golden Hand of the Silver Studio Sarah Wright (B2 1968-69) £12 Available to OMs at the discounted price of £12. Enquiries to Birse Press at this email aboyne.wright@btinternet.com Frank Price, 1891 to 1970, was the last Chief Designer of the Silver Studio. Even today, his ghost hovers over the smartest and most exclusive interior decoration.
From 1880 to 1965, his employers produced some of the finest fabrics and wallpapers sold to Heads of State, Liberty, Sanderson, Warner, Baker and a host of names from across the world. The name of the studio, however, was almost unknown because its designs were rebadged, an acceptable practice at the time. Unfortunately, names such as Frank Price lapsed into obscurity. He is an elusive artist, creating wonderful designs in almost every genre – from japonaiserie to Old English. Because of his skills, he was chained to the fashion treadmill. His private notebook and subtly subversive flower studies suggest the real Frank. This book is for everyone interested in 20th-century design.
Puddings, Bullies & Squashes: Early Public School Football Codes Contributions from David Walsh (C1 1960-65) and Grainne Lenehan (College Archivist) £19 Each public school played a form of football by their own laws, as they were grandly called, until a meeting at the Freemasons’ Tavern near Covent Garden in 1863 agreed a common system. The story of the game’s development in these schools is admirably told in a collection of essays edited by Malcolm Tozer. ‘A few things leap out from reading this book. The first is how violent those early games were. The other is how most matches were based around the scrum rather than the individual, the mass not the maestro.’ Patrick Kidd, The Times. Puddings, Bullies and Squashes ‘fills a gap in the market and is much needed as an important supplement and research resource for future scholars. [It] uncovers one part of the early years of the
David Walsh (C1 1960-65) and Sir Anthony Seldon £18.74 Following on from Public Schools and the Great War, Sir Anthony Seldon and David Walsh now examine those same schools in the Second World War. Privileged conservative traditions of private schools were challenged in the inter-war years by the changing social and political landscape, including a greater role for the alumni of The Marlburian Club Magazine 103
