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Jack Sheffield (born Jack Linley, 1945 in Leeds) is a British author who wrote a series of novels about the headmaster of a school in a fictional Yorkshire village. The stories are set from the late 1970s to the early 1980s and attempt to portray life in Yorkshire as it was at that time. He grew up in Gipton in Leeds, trained as a teacher at St John's College, York and later became head teacher of two schools in North Yorkshire and then senior lecturer in primary education at Bretton Hall. He took up writing after retirement, and his first novel Teacher, Teacher! sold 100,000 copies. In 2016 he was awarded the honorary title of Cultural Fellow of York St John University. Books Teacher, Teacher! (2007) Mister Teacher (2008) Dear Teacher (2009) Village Teacher (2010) Please Sir! (2011) Educating Jack (2012) School's Out (2013) Silent Night (2013) Star Teacher (2015) Happiest Days (2017) Starting Over (2018) Changing Times (2019) "Back To School" (2020) "School Days" (2021) "Last day of School" (2022) References External links Official website . Discover the Jack Sheffield popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jack Sheffield books.

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  • Dear Teacher synopsis, comments

    Dear Teacher

    Jack Sheffield

    It's 1979: Dallas is enthralling the nation on TV, Mrs Thatcher has just become prime minister, Abba is top of the pops, and in the small Yorkshire village of RagleyontheForest, Ja...

  • Vets in Love synopsis, comments

    Vets in Love

    Cathy Woodman

    The sixth book in Cathy Woodman's hugely popular Talyton St George seriesEach book in the Talyton St George series can be read as a standalone novel, but when Cathy first had the i...

  • When I Was a Nipper synopsis, comments

    When I Was a Nipper

    Alan Titchmarsh

    In When I Was a Nipper Alan Titchmarsh goes on a personal and nostalgic journey through postWar Britain in search of treasured values and traditions that were once the soul of soci...

  • The Sweetest Thing synopsis, comments

    The Sweetest Thing

    Cathy Woodman

    The third novel in Cathy Woodman's hugely popular Talyton St George series.Each book in the Talyton St George series can be read as a standalone novel, but when Cathy first had the...

  • Bad Becky synopsis, comments

    Bad Becky

    Gervase Phinn

    Bad Becky is cheeky, opinionated and always in some kind of trouble. But you can't help loving her! I mean wouldn't you rather hear a story about a princess who gets gobbled up by ...

  • Bad Becky in Trouble synopsis, comments

    Bad Becky in Trouble

    Gervase Phinn

    Bad Becky is cheeky (but charming), opinionated and always in some kind of trouble. But you can't help loving her! I mean wouldn't you rather hear a story about a princess who gets...

  • Up and Down in the Dales synopsis, comments

    Up and Down in the Dales

    Gervase Phinn

    Escape to the country with Gervase Phinn's heartwarming tales of life as a school inspector in Yorkshire'Gervase Phinn's memoirs have made him a hero in school staffrooms' Daily Te...

  • The Day Our Teacher Went Batty synopsis, comments

    The Day Our Teacher Went Batty

    Gervase Phinn

    A second collection of poems based on familiar themes.....

  • A Wayne in a Manger synopsis, comments

    A Wayne in a Manger

    Gervase Phinn

    A Wayne in a Manger is the hilarious compilation of nativity stories by Gervase Phinn.Discover some wonderfully funny and touching nativity play anecdotes, including children forge...

  • A Class Act synopsis, comments

    A Class Act

    Gervase Phinn

    The third and final novel in the delightful Top of the Dales series from bestselling author Gervase Phinn.'A worthy successor to James Herriot, and every bit as endearing.' Alan T...

  • A Lesson in Love synopsis, comments

    A Lesson in Love

    Gervase Phinn

    '[Gervase Phinn is] a worthy successor to James Herriott, and every bit as endearing.' bestselling author Alan Titchmarsh Love is in the air in the little village of Bartoninthe...

  • The School at the Top of the Dale synopsis, comments

    The School at the Top of the Dale

    Gervase Phinn

    '[Gervase Phinn is] a worthy successor to James Herriott, and every bit as endearing.' bestselling author Alan TitchmarshNewly qualified teacher Tom Dwyer has been given his first...

  • Christmas at Thrush Green synopsis, comments

    Christmas at Thrush Green

    Miss Read

    A brand new Miss Read novel, set in the Cotswold village of Thrush Green at Christmas.The villagers of Thrush Green celebrate Christmas traditionally, in a way that has hardly chan...

  • Secrets at the Little Village School synopsis, comments

    Secrets at the Little Village School

    Gervase Phinn

    '[Gervase Phinn is] a worthy successor to James Herriott, and every bit as endearing.' bestselling author Alan Titchmarsh'It's a small village is BartonintheDale, Mrs Stirling,' s...

  • Over Hill and Dale synopsis, comments

    Over Hill and Dale

    Gervase Phinn

    Over Hill and Dale is the second volume in Gervase Phinn's bestselling Dales series.'Miss, who's that funny man at the back of the classroom?So begins schoolinspector Gervase Phinn...

  • A Load of Balls synopsis, comments

    A Load of Balls

    John Scally

    As former England striker and television pundit Jimmy Greaves famously said, football is 'a funny old game'. In A Load of Balls: Football's Funny Side, John Scally confirms the tru...

  • Quarter Tones synopsis, comments

    Quarter Tones

    Susan Mann

    The most important things are hardest to find words for, her father once said. That's why people make music.When Ana returns to the ramshackle cottage of her youth in the seaside v...

  • The New Rector synopsis, comments

    The New Rector

    Rebecca Shaw

    The first Turnham Malpas novel from bestselling author Rebecca Shaw.When Peter Harris arrives in Turnham Malpas as the new rector, he finds the village people welcoming but set in ...

  • Tales Out of School synopsis, comments

    Tales Out of School

    Gervase Phinn

    '[Gervase Phinn is] a worthy successor to James Herriot, and every bit as endearing.' bestselling author Alan Titchmarsh'A shining light in our dark days' 5 STAR reader reviewAft...

  • Clough synopsis, comments

    Clough

    Tony Francis

    Brian Clough is no ordinary football manager. He has walked on water at Nottingham Forest and through hellfire at one or two other clubs without once conceding an inch to anybody. ...

  • Making of a Murderer synopsis, comments

    Making of a Murderer

    Michael Wood

    ‘DCI Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths‘Matilda Darke is an excellent character’ BA ParisA MISSING TEENAGERWhen Sharon Mackintosh allows her teenage daughter to p...

  • The Other Side of the Dale synopsis, comments

    The Other Side of the Dale

    Gervase Phinn

    Take a trip to the country with Gervase Phinn's heartwarming tales of life as a school inspector in Yorkshire'Gervase Phinn's memoirs have made him a hero in school staffrooms' Dai...