The Terror of St Trinian’s by Timothy Shy and Ronald Searle

This is one of the books which I bought at the St Andrew’s and St George’s booksale a few months ago. I don’t think I had even realised that there were St Trinian’s books, I had an idea that it was a newspaper comic strip which Ronald Searle had drawn. Timothy Shy was in fact the writer D.B. Wyndham Lewis, you can read about him here.

I enjoyed this daft romp which didn’t stray very far from the 1950s film versions of St Trinian’s, with the wonderful Alastair Sim as the headmistress. There are a fair few Ronald Searle cartoons illustrating the mayhem of St Trinian’s, some of which you can see here