This series watches a small, terrified boy escape the ravages of squalid Victorian London. He stows away on a migrant sailing ship heading for the other side of the world. He escapes the predatory advances of a paedophile captain, and is adopted by an on-board family. The first book deals with terri
Posh
โ Scribed by Laura Wade
- Publisher
- OBERON BOOKS Ltd
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 66 KB
- Edition
- Revised West End edition
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1849430675
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
I've got a new law for you mate, it's called survival of the fittest, it's called fuck you we're the Riot Club.
In an oak-panelled room in Oxford, ten young bloods with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to rule. Members of an elite student dining society, the boys are bunkering down for a wild night of debauchery, decadence and bloody good wine. But this isn't the last huzzah: they're planning a takeover. Welcome to the Riot Club.
Laura Wade's depiction of wealth and privilege is savagely funny - Time Out London
Disgracefully entertaining... there is much fun to be had at the expense of these posh characters as they bicker, get wasted and lament the awfulness of the working classes. โ The Telegraph
Wade deftly skewers the sense of entitlement that swirls like a sickly perfume around a certain kind of upper-class thug. Her characters seem to have everything, yet whinge relentlessly... Posh combines twisted...
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