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Wayward St.Etheldreda Academy

The Affair of the Chocolate Teapot
Wayward and The Turning Tide
Seasonal Cheer at Wayward Academy
Best Practices, Reading Wars, and Eruption at Wayward
The School Mission: Wayward Academy or St. Etheldreda’s
Personal Update. And Breaking News
Leadership and the Curse of St. Custard’s

McPomes

What Is Revealed
Ocean Park (for Richard) after Frank O’Hara with Cigarette
Dead Man’s Penny
The Scattering
Incident on Broadway
The Inventory of After
The Gardener’s Diary, 1940
Spring in the Trenches
Snowdrops

The Life and Times of C.Langley Dunwood

Tasting Notes
Dunwood Comes Ashore at The Seasloth Review
Pass the Biscuits: On the Cosy Corruption of the Blurb
The Seasloth Review
Penguins and the Poet

Other Fiction, Verse & Worse

Thermocline
The McSwindle
Authority Interrupted: My Giddy Aunt!
As Atlas the Sky
The Knitter
Hot Stuff
Beryl Goes to School
Aligned
When the Machine Makes It Up: Check your Sources
The Raft
A Shadorma Chain on the Problem of Cats
An Invitation
A Winter Expedition
An Abundance of Caution
Classic Crime: Death Comes to Kellings
Eat my leek!
Eye-Rhyme Blues
For When It Snows Part Two
Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!]
The Ingredient
The Shadorma – Definition and Origin with Examples.
The Sordid Boon

Headlands

Can and May and Merv
The Queen of Mean
The Welsh Connection
And of Course We Called Her “Nutty”
The Changed Face of School Leadership

WW1

Song of the Dark Ages
Sospan Fach and that Cursèd Wood
Suvla Bay, Gallipoli 1915
That Cursèd Wood
Thaw
The Christmas Truce: “A Day of Perfect Peace”
The BWIR, Mutiny and the Men of Taranto: No Parades
Women Artists of WW1: Nellie Isaac
Women Artists of WW1: Norah Neilson Gray
Wood on the Downs
“And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds”.
1915 and The Midnight of the Nations
Before The Charge: The Great Push, Loos, September 1915
The BWIR, Mutiny and the Men of Taranto: No Parades
For The Sake Of Example: The story of Pvt. Herbert Morris of the BWIR

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Beryl Goes to School
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