Philip Hensher

Ronald Searle

Geoffrey Willans

Nothing escapes Nigel Molesworth's disaffected eye and he has little time for such things as botany, walks, poetry, snekes and oiks. Instead he is very good at missing lessons, charming masters and putting down little brothers.

Molesworth

A Guide to Sukcess for Tiny Pupils, Including All There is to Kno about Space

How to be Topp

A complete collection of Lilliput magazine drawings based on the boarding school residents of St. Trinian's is a compendium of darkly comic depictions of young women embodying both polished manners and decidedly human vices.

The Entire Appalling Business

St. Trinian's

The Penguin Ronald Searle

The author describes his experiences as a Japanese prisoner-of-war in Singapore during World War II, and shares the sketches he made during his captivity

War Drawings, 1939-1945

To the Kwai and Back

In 1941 Ronald Searle was made a prisoner of war by the Japanese, after 14 months in a POW camp he was sent to work on the Burma Railway until May 1944 when he was sent to the notorious Changi prison. Throughout his captivity Searle drew to record his experiences, hiding the drawings, and they have been become to be recognised as among the greatest, and most moving, record of WW2. Searle has described the book as "the grafitti of a condemned man... who found himself--to his surprise and delight -- among the reprieved."

This is a compilation of Ronald Searle's many cartoons of the 1950s, including sections from the St. Trinian's volumes such as The Rake's Progress and Merry England.

The Terror of St Trinian's and Other Drawings

Down with Skool!

Ronald Searle's Non-Sexist Dictionary

The Dog's Ear Book

Alex Atkinson

By Rocking-chair Across Russia

Russia for Beginners

The catalogues of antiquarian booksellers are written in a parallel language which can fool anyone not initiated into the mysteries of its complexities. After a lifetime of scanning these codes Ronald Searle has become an expert in decoding those poetic, exotic and usually approximate descriptions. InSlightly Foxed he offers his own guide to foiling the devious schemes of wicked booksellers forever.

Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Book Collecting

Slightly Foxed - But Still Desirable

Ronald Searle in Perspective

Merry England, Etc

Which Way Did He Go?

The Situation is Hopeless

Germany from the Inside and Out

Haven't We Met Before Somewhere?

47 jewel-like drawings by Ronald Searle made for his wife, Monica, each time she underwent chemotherapy.

Les Très Riches Heures de Mrs Mole

This lighthearted look at the secrets of the world's wine ceremonies invites vintners and wine drinkers to experience the mysteries of wine and its production. Illustrated in Searle's inimitable style are the ancient noble ceremony of slashing the "trockenbeerenauslese, the inauguration of the first authentic "denominazione di origine controllata e garantita, and the vinolympics. For wine lovers who have never tasted "ptolemy nouveau or watched the uncorking of the "kangarouge, these experiences are related with warmth and humor. The many ways to open a bottle of wine are illustrated, and the rituals and delights of wine around the world are described.

Ronald Searle's Wonderful World of Wine

Something in the Cellar

A hilarious send-up of winetasters' jargon, this collection of cartoons offers a satiric look at pretentious phrases used to describe wines by humorously assigning those characteristics to people.

Ronald Searle

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