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Marlby Series

This series delves into the secrets and intrigues unfolding within the hallowed halls of prestigious British boarding schools. It follows the intertwined lives of young students whose paths cross with a dark past and hidden betrayals. Each installment unravels further layers of suspense, where innocence confronts cold-blooded schemes and ancient mysteries surface. It's a gripping narrative about the pursuit of a better life, the cost of lies, and the inescapable nature of the past.

Different Class
Gentlemen and Players

Recommended Reading Order

  1. Gentlemen and Players

    • 422 pages
    • 15 hours of reading

    For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more than thirty years. This year, however, the wind of unwelcome change is blowing, and Straitley is finally, reluctantly, contemplating retirement. As the new term gets under way, a number of incidents befall students and faculty alike, beginning as small annoyances but soon escalating in both number and consequence. St. Oswald's is unraveling, and only Straitley stands in the way of its ruin. But he faces a formidable opponent with a bitter grudge and a master strategy that has been meticulously planned to the final, deadly move.

    Gentlemen and Players1
    3.9

  2. Different Class

    • 400 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    The impressively versatile Joanne Harris in her psychological thriller mode, at her darkest and most unsettling. After thirty years at St Oswald's Grammar in North Yorkshire, Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all kinds of boys come and go. Each class has its clowns, its rebels, its underdogs, its 'Brodie' boys who, whilst of course he doesn't have avourites, hold a special place in an old teacher's heart. But every so often there's a boy who doesn't fit the mould. A troublemaker. A boy with hidden shadows inside. With insolvency and academic failure looming, a new broom has arrived at the venerable school, bringing Powerpoint, sharp suits and even sixth form girls to the dusty corridors. But while Straitley does his sardonic best to resist this march to the future, a shadow from his past is stirring. A boy who even twenty years on haunts his teacher's dreams. A boy capable of bad things.

    Different Class2
    3.8