Gentlemen & Players

joanne harris steven pacey

For generations, elite young men have attended St. Oswald's School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric classics teacher who has been a revered fixture for more than 30 years. Contemplating retirement, he is joined this term by five new faculty members, including one who--unknown to Straitley and everyone else--holds intimate and dangerous knowledge or St. Oswald's ways and secrets. Harboring dark ties to the school's past, this young teacher has arrived with one terrible goal: destroy St. Oswald's. Told in alternating voices, Gentlemen & Players is a riveting, hypnotically atmospheric novel of suspense that showcases Joanne Harris's astonishing storytelling talent.

Genres fictionmysterydark academiathrillercontemporarymystery thrillerbook clubcrimeaudiobooksuspense

0 pages, Audiobook

First published October 1,2005

Series

Malbry

Literary awards

edgar award,

This edition

Format: 0 pages, Audiobook
Published: February 1, 2006 by BBC Audiobooks
ISBN: 9780792739029
ASIN: 0792739027
Language: English

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Roy Straitley

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About the author

joanne harris

Joanne Harris is also known as Joanne M. Harris

Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French author, whose books include fourteen novels, two cookbooks and many short stories. Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology and fantasy. She has also written a DR WHO novella for the BBC, has scripted guest episodes for the game ZOMBIES, RUN!, and is currently engaged in a number of musical theatre projects as well as developing an original drama for television.
In 2000, her 1999 novel CHOCOLAT was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and in 2022 was awarded an OBE by the Queen.
Her hobbies are listed in Who's Who as 'mooching, lounging, strutting, strumming, priest-baiting and quiet subversion'. She also spends too much time on Twitter; plays flute and bass guitar in a band first formed when she was 16; and works from a shed in her garden at her home in Yorkshire.