King's ParadeA first novel about a northern cad's education at Cambridge University and his rise through commercial and political spheres in the city.

A string of events

It is here that Marcel has to make the decision which he has been dreading - to choose between his wife

Every initiative meets with failure

a tribe from the East whose fierceness is legendary

Violence and extortion are rife

colour and blazing sunlight of a world he had imagined since childhood

Two years later

An unnamed spy - perhaps the same reluctant hero of The Ipcress File - is sent to Paris to deliver a file of nuclear secrets to a French doctor

Nevertheless

one of the many Black Africans purveying goods outside normal shop hours and without work permits

journalist

back-biters and petty thieves