Alleyn Club Yearbook 2018

Dr Keith McCarthy (71–78) Books 1-3 in Keith McCarthy’s thrilling Eisenmenger- Flemming forensic series are collected together for the first time. A Feast of Carrion

large cast of other characters, all lovingly and intimately portrayed. Exquisite and musical, In the Skin of a Lion is a novel that challenges the boundary between history and myth. It is a stunning modern classic.

John Eisenmenger, a former forensic scientist, finds himself dragged unwillingly into a bizarre and gruesome murder case. The Silent Sleep of the Dying

Dr John Freeman (57-64) What Possessed Me

John won the Roland Mathias Poetry Award for his collection What Possessed Me (Worple Press) which explores childhood memories and lifelong relationships with humour, poignancy, and preternatural clarity.

When a bereaved father asks Helena Flemming and John Eisenmenger to investigate the death of his daughter, Millicent Sweet, they don’t expect to find anything. After all, while 22 is far too young to die, cancer

Gordon Hutchins (52-59) The vanished hour: Poems written over half a century A collection of poems. Proceeds

doesn’t discriminate. The Final Analysis

It’s fair to say that when Melchior Pendred, convicted of five horrible identical murders, dies in prison, the locals were relieved – until a sixth body turns up. With an eerily similar

from the sale of this book have been donated to Epilepsy Action inmemory of Gordon’s son, Craig.

background to his brother, suspicion mounts about his identical twin, Martin. Did the police convict the wrong brother?

Ian Brinton, Former Staff (89-09) Infinite Riches: Dulwich College Poets 1950 – Present Day The second in our 400th

Nicholas Manton (64-70) and Nicholas Mee The Physical World, Oxford University Press, 2017

Anniversary book series written by former Head of English and Head of Upper School, Ian Brinton.

Unlike many popular physics books, The Physical World uses key mathematical ideas needed to understand and relate the topics, and readers should be comfortable with e.g. A-level Further Maths, or some university maths. Nick Manton FRS is a Cambridge academic researching theoretical particle and nuclear physics.

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Michael Ondaatje (54 -62) In the Skin of a Lion

From the Booker Prize-winning author comes the sparkling and lyrical predecessor to bestselling novel The English Patient. Here we encounter Hana the orphaned girl and Caravaggio the thief for the first time, as well as a

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