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Classics, Caning and Cricket
BOOKS USED AS REFERENCES BY VYVYEN BRENDON IN 'PREP SCHOOL CHILDREN'
Diana Athill  Yesterday Morning (memoir)

Lord Berners  First Childhood (memoir)

Anthony Buckeridge  Jennings goes to School  (novel

Winston Churchill  My Early Life  (memoir)

John Betjeman Summoned by Bells (autobiographical poem)

Roald Dahl  Boy (memoir)

Stephen Fry Moab is My Washpot (memoir)

Pamela Hansford Johnson The Honours Board (novel)

Tim Heald Class Distinctions (novel)

Michael Holroyd Basil Street Blues (memoir)

Alistair Horne A Bundle from Britain (memoir)

Thomas Hughes Tom Brown’s Schooldays (novel)

Tim Jeal Swimming with My Father (memoir)

Ludovic Kennedy On My way to the Club (memoir)

Lord Lytton Antony: A Record of Youth (memoir)

Louis MacNeice Autumn Journal (poem)

Arthur Marshall Whimpering Among the Rhododendrons (anthology)

Gavin Maxwell The House of Elrig (memoir)

Andrew Motion In the Blood (memoir)

Ferdinand Mount Cold Cream (memoir)

George Orwell Such, Such Were the Joys (essay)

J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (novel)

Siegfried Sassoon The Old Century and Seven More Years (memoir)

Anthony Trollope An Autobiography

Evelyn Waugh Decline and Fall (novel)

Geoffrey Willans & Ronald Searle How to be Topp (humour)

Hugo Williams Writing Home (poetry)

Leonard Woolf Sowing (memoir)
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