Hans Fallada Alone in Berlin?

One of the better books I've read is The History of Glue. Couldn't put it down.

We were one of the first years to do a new kind of A Level course (back then) where over a two year period we studied the works of Wilfred Owen, some 50 poems I think, and didn't know which one was going to come up in the actual exam.

A young Mezzer spotted an opportunity in this format and ran a book on which poem was going to come up. Being a persuasive youth I got the whole year group to bet 10p even though most of them didn't know what it was all about, and I made Dulce Et Decorum Est the 6/4 favourite as that was the only one anyone had ever heard of.

When it came to that bit in an exam when the teacher says "You can turn your papers over now" there was a pause, then two distinct hisses of "Yesssss.." from the rows of candidates. One was from me, and the other was from a lad called David Kaspar who was the only one to have unwittingly put his 10p on the 33/1 shot that had just been revealed.

The only downside about the whole episode was that I have a bad back to this very day which I attribute to carrying a load of 10p coins around in my pockets.

One of the better books I've read is The History of Glue. Couldn't put it down.

We were one of the first years to do a new kind of A Level course (back then) where over a two year period we studied the works of Wilfred Owen, some 50 poems I think, and didn't know which one was going to come up in the actual exam.

A young Mezzer spotted an opportunity in this format and ran a book on which poem was going to come up. Being a persuasive youth I got the whole year group to bet 10p even though most of them didn't know what it was all about, and I made Dulce Et Decorum Est the 6/4 favourite as that was the only one anyone had ever heard of.

When it came to that bit in an exam when the teacher says "You can turn your papers over now" there was a pause, then two distinct hisses of "Yesssss.." from the rows of candidates. One was from me, and the other was from a lad called David Kaspar who was the only one to have unwittingly put his 10p on the 33/1 shot that had just been revealed.

The only downside about the whole episode was that I have a bad back to this very day which I attribute to carrying a load of 10p coins around in my pockets.