Porterhouse Blue: Dyspeptic Sir Godber Evans arrives in the cloistered, comfortable world of a Cambridge college known more for its gastronomy than its learning, intent on introducing widespread change. He has reckoned without the determined defiance of the well-fed college staff, especially the traditionalist head porter Skullion ...
Blott on the Landscape: Blott is a Dresden-born, ex-Italian naturalized Englishman with a passionate love of all things English, including his employer Lady Maude. When he discovers that Lady Maude's hideous ancestral home is under threat from her devious husband Sir Giles, Blott will stop at nothing -- blackmail, wild animals or open warfare -- in his efforts to protect it ...