RONALD SEARLE

A selection of cartoons to coincide with the 2007 St Trinian's movie starring Colin Firth and Rupert Everett.

47 jewel-like drawings by Ronald Searle made for his wife, Monica, each time she underwent chemotherapy On New Year's Eve 1969, Monica Searle was diagnosed with a rare and virulent form of breast cancer Each time she underwent treatment, Ronald produced a Mrs Mole drawing 'to cheer every dreaded chemotherapy session and evoke the blissful future ahead'...

Ronald Searle takes us back to the world of the Gothic Public School in The Terror of St Trinian's. In this gloriously anarchic academy for young ladies we witness shootings, knifings, torture and witchcraft, as well as many maidenly arts. The subject of many evergreen films, St Trinian's is synonymous with the sort of outrageous behaviour that would make a convict blench. This book also contains a selection of Ronald Searle's work from the non-school books, including The Rake's Progress, Souls in Torment and Merry England, etc. and their publication in one volumes stakes Searle's claim to be the greatest and most influential English satirist since the war.

On The Illustrated Winespeak's first publication in 1983, this hilarious send-up of winetaster's jargon was hailed by 'The Financial Times' as "one of this year's bubbling successes". It has since been constantly reprinted to meet demand and has become a classic of its kind. For all those mystified by the strange pontifications of wine-buffs, Ronald Searle's The Illustrated Winespeak is the perfect guide to the meaning behind "distinctive nose", "full bodied" and "elegant but lacks backbone".

Considerado un clásico de la literatura ilustrada del XX, y una de las creaciones más gamberras jamás escritas, «¡Abajo el colejio!» inaugura las aventuras del famoso colegial Nigel Molesworth, un cl