Short of Glory

by Alan Judd (Author)

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  Paperback
  1988

  $6.66

  A satirical romp through the corridors of the Foreign Office as Patrick Stubbs is posted as third secretary in the British Embassy in Lower Africa. Mayhem awaits him - an absent-minded ambassador, a bullying first secretary with a dipsomaniac wife, and a crush on the police chief's wife! The author won the 1981 Royal Society of Literature Award for A Breed of Heroes . In 1983 he was chosen as one of the Best of Young British Novelists.

• Used

  Paperback
  2009

  $3.28

  A satirical romp through the corridors of the Foreign Office as Patrick Stubbs is posted as third secretary in the British Embassy in Lower Africa. Mayhem awaits him - an absent-minded ambassador, a bullying first secretary with a dipsomaniac wife, and a crush on the police chief's wife! The author won the 1981 Royal Society of Literature Award for A Breed of Heroes . In 1983 he was chosen as one of the Best of Young British Novelists.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1984

  $5.88