When Lord Petrefact hires Walden Yapp, Professor of Demotic Historiography at Kloone University, to write a scurrilous family history Yapp finds plenty of material in Buscott village, where...

To Porterhouse College, Cambridge, famous for rowing, low academic standards and a proud cuisine, comes a new Master - an ex-grammar-school boy, demanding Firsts, women students, a self-service...

The landscape is flawless, typical of rural England at its best. Sir Giles, an MP of few principles and curious tastes, plots to destroy all this by building a motorway smack through it, to line...