Mrs Bradley is visiting the picturesque village of Spey in search of a local witch when Gerald Conway, a junior master at Spey College, is found murdered. Despised by both pupils & peers, there is no shortage of suspects but can the redoubtable Mrs Bradley use tact, wit & just a touch of black magic to make the boys & their masters divulge the truth? ...

Mrs Bradley is visiting the picturesque village of Spey in search of a local witch when Gerald Conway, a junior master at Spey College, is found murdered. Despised by both pupils & peers, there is no shortage of suspects but can the redoubtable Mrs Bradley use tact, wit & just a touch of black magic to make the boys & their masters divulge the truth? ...

When Richard, a divorced but desirable vet from Tasmania, proposes to Sarah, an English Rose, she decides to accept & start a whole new life with him down under. The only problem is, though, that days before the wedding Sarah falls in love with Richard ...

Just when you thought it was safe to go into a bookshop, here is yet another book from that man at The Herald Diary. It is the usual scintillating mixture of anecdote, pith (no, there is no lithp involved) & fable. There will also be some funny photies. This is the fifth book in the Tom Shields trilogy. Yes, his counting is as awful as his writing. This time, however, Shields does not bare the blame alone. This tome is culled from the Diary columns what Shields & Ken Smith wrote together five days a week at The Herald. This was before Pepys the Elder left to embark on a glittering career as a freelance writer, leaving the column in the capable hands of the talented-ish, young-ish, handsome Mr Smith., ' Just when you thought it was safe to go into a bookshop, here is yet another book from that man at the Herald Diary. It is the usual scintillating mixture of anecdote, pith (no, there is no lithp involved) & fable. There will also be some funny photies.

This is the fifth book in the Tom Shields trilogy. Yes, his counting is as awful as his writing. This time, however, Shields does not bare the blame alone. This tome is culled from the Diary columns that Shields & Ken Smith wrote together five days a week at The Herald. This was before Pepys the Elder left to embark on a glittering career as a freelance writer, leaving the column in the capable hands of the talented-ish, young-ish, handsome Mr Smith.

Tom Shields' writing is featured in four other Mainstream books: Tom Shields' Diary, Tom Shields Too, Tom Shields Free at Last & Tom Shields Goes Forth.'



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Tom Shields: Free at Last, the third in the Tom Shields' Diary trilogy, has been eagerly awaited by the sort of people who have absolutely no idea what to buy Dad for Christmas. Tom Shields' Diary has become an institution in the Glasgow Herald. The man should have been put in an institution many years ago. ...