2 books by Norman Collins
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Overview: Norman Collins born 3 October 1907, died 1982, was a British writer, and later a radio and television executive, who became one of the major figures behind the establishment of the Independent Television (ITV) network in the UK. This was the first organisation to break the BBC’s broadcasting monopoly when it began transmitting in 1955.
Genre: General Fiction, Literature
The Governor’s Lady
Set in an off-the-map British Colony in Central Africa in the early 1930’s, "The Governor’s Lady" portays a host of interesting characters: young Harold Stebbs, bachelor, newly appointed to the Governor’s secretariat in Amimbo; the Governor, Sir Gardnor Hackforth, already something of a Pro-consular legend in the Service, and tipped by "The Times" for the next Viceroyship; Mr. Frith, the passed-over Acting Chief Secretary, a rather too familiar figure at the bar in the Milner Club; Tony Henley, the A.D.C., who has ultimately to be disowned; Old Moses, the trusted Mimbo butler and key figure in the Residency; the socially irresistible Mr. Ngono; Mr. Talefwa, left-wing editor of the African Independence newspaper, War Drum; and Mr. Das, itinerant legal Counsel called in by the Defence. Then there is the Governor’s Lady herself; twenty years younger than Sir Gardnor; somewhat withdrawn from Government life because of an incident that occurred before Harold Stebbs arrived; and already the subject of gossip in European, African and Asian circles alike. There is also Lady Anne’s lady-in-waiting, Sybil Prosser, who has her own reasons for discretion.
The Husband’s Story
A novel full of high comedy and suspense of Stanley Pitts, a filing clerk in the Admiralty, a small man in stature, ambition and cahievement, devoted to his hobby of photography and whose latest failure with the Civil Servive Selection Board did not matter to him. However it mattered to his wife, Beryl, a social climber, mistress of their house, with it’s garden gnomes, wall to wall carpet and it’s fridge filled with Cornish pasties. When Stanley’s photographic study of ‘Hoarfrost on Wimbledon Common’ wins the Admiralty Division Photographic Competition on the eve of his expected promotion, never has the future looked brighter, so how then did he end up in the dock of No. 1 Court at the Old Bailey? Why was the sentence such a savage one? What part did Mr. Cheevers, crime reporter of the Sunday Sun, play in all this?
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