University Challenges
$23.34
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2025
Summary
York, 1989.
Beginning his second year as a tutor at the University of Eboracum, Dr Tom Frith is surprised to be paired as a ‘buddy tutor’ for a new member of staff. At first, Dr Rosie Tremaine appears staunchly independent, and even standoffish. But as Rosie and Tom navigate the trials and tribulations of life on campus, they soon become firm friends.
Whether they’re investigating the shady practices of the new bursar or chasing down a rogue student suspected of being a Peepin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804992951 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 180499295X |
| Author: | Jack Sheffield |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 233g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 127mm x 20mm |
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A hilarious and heart-warming novel * Living North *
About The Author
Jack Sheffield
Jack Sheffield grew up in the tough environment of Gipton Estate, in North East Leeds. After a job as a ‘pitch boy’, repairing roofs, he became a Corona Pop man before going to St John’s College, York, and training to be a teacher. In the late seventies and eighties, he was a headteacher of two schools in North Yorkshire before becoming Senior Lecturer in Primary Education at Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds. It was at this time he began to record his many amusing stories of village life as portrayed in Teacher, Teacher!, Mister Teacher, Dear Teacher, Village Teacher, Please Sir!, Educating Jack, School’s Out!, Silent Night, Star Teacher, Happiest Days, Starting Over, Changing Times, Back to School, School Days and Last Day of School. He lives in Hampshire.
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