Gentlemen & Players
First edition | |
| Author | Joanne Harris |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Mystery, Psychological suspense novel |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 1 October 2005 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 512 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 0-385-60366-5 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 60667909 |
| Followed by | Different Class |
Gentlemen & Players is a psychological thriller novel by Joanne Harris first published in 2005. Set in the 1990s at St. Oswald's, a grammar school for boys in the North of England, it is the first of three novels featuring the Classics teacher Roy Straitley, who faces a series of incidents at St. Oswald's Grammar School as he considers retirement. Harris drew on her own experiences teaching at an all-boys' grammar school, as well as the Molesworth series and the novel Gormenghast. The novel addresses themes of social class, coming of age and revenge. It was well-received on publication, with reviewers making comparisons with Patricia Highsmith and Terence Rattigan, and was nominated for an Edgar Award in 2006.