A.N. Wilson

In a class of his own | 27 August 2011

Ysenda Maxtone Graham’s Mr Tibbits’s Catholic School captures the hilarity and pathos of an eccentric headmaster and the unusual establishment he founded in Kensington in the Thirties. A.N.Wilson introduces us to his funny, peculiar world

  • Mr Tibbits’s Catholic School

    Ysenda Maxtone Graham, illustrated by Kath Walker

    Slightly Foxed, pp. 199

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