Old Monktonians - Shewell Cooper, Bernard Cornwell, Kevin Walton, Ran Laurie, Richard Stilgoe, John Bush, Graham Leonard, Michael Head (Paperback)

Chapters: Shewell Cooper, Bernard Cornwell, Kevin Walton, Ran Laurie, Richard Stilgoe, John Bush, Graham Leonard, Michael Head, Richard Dearlove, Richard Peirse, Maurice Wood, J. Desmond Clark, John Alexander Strong, Michael Stear, George Francis Graham Brown, Charles Sergel, Michael Lapage, Arthur Kenneth Mathews, Alfred Young, David Allan Brown, John Frank Ewan Bone. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 79. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bernard Cornwell OBE (born 23 February 1944) is an English author of historical novels. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe which were adapted into a series of Sharpe television films. Cornwell was born in London in 1944. His father was a Canadian airman, and his mother was English, a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. He was adopted and brought up in Essex by the Wiggins family, who were members of the Peculiar People, a strict sect who were pacifists, banned frivolity of all kinds and even medicine. After he left them, he changed his name to his mother's maiden name, Cornwell. Cornwell was sent away to Monkton Combe School He attended the University of London, and after graduating, worked as a teacher. He attempted to enlist in the British armed services at least three times, but was rejected on the grounds of myopia. He then joined the BBC's Nationwide and was promoted to become head of current affairs at BBC Northern Ireland. He then joined Thames Television as editor of Thames News. He relocated to the United States in 1980 after marrying an American. Unable to get a green Card, he started writing novels, as this did not require a work permit. As a child, Cornwell loved the novels of C. S. Forester, chronicling the adventures of fictional British naval officer Horatio Hornblower during the Napo...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=20855