The Boys of Swithins Hall: An English Schoolboy Novel

by Chris Kent and Annabeth Albert

A gay English schoolboy novel following the traditional genre which presents the story of Tim Dunn's sexual awakening - in overdrive. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879194252
• ISBN13: 9781879194250
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: GLB Publishers
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

boys

Received the book as ordered. Good story plot which would have been good even without the sex.

Bawdy goings on at a boys' school

Tim Dunn is eighteen years old, he has finished his A levels and has just started his gap year as assistant housemaster at Swithins Hall public school for boys where he proves to be very popular with the pupils. Tim relates his experiences at Swithins Hall as well as reminiscing on his own past school days. At Swithins Hall one the boys, the unabashed, very appealing and bright Sam Sebestyen, endeavours to seduce the morally reluctant but physically more than willing Tim; his constant pleas "please sir, it's what I want", are hard to resist. Tim is confronted by other willing and pleading students, and witnesses various illicit goings on between the boys. But despite the attractions of Swithins Hall, Tim cannot get out of his mind his boyhood friend Guy; they meet when new boy Guy arrived at Tim's boarding school and became best friends. However Tim realises he is really in love with Guy, but isn't Guy straight; and will they ever see each other again now that Guy has moved to Australia? This is more than just a series of sexual romps; with a steamy experience on holiday in Spain and through his short time at Swithins Hall the rather starchy and naive Tim loosens up and comes to acknowledge and enjoy his inclinations; he also learns that sex, friendship and love are not necessarily the same thing. Through Chris Kent's lucid writing, Tim Dunn narrates his outrageous past and present experiences with humour and passion, and his many sexual escapades in explicit detail, a great fun read.

I've seen better.

I bought this book ONLY because someone else said that it was "a piece of crap that contained only sex!!". ^_^ Do I need to say more? Then why four stars rather than five? Because I myself could have made a better work with it. No, seriously. It has lots of cool sex (and there was one speciffic scene I would have liked to see unfold more... ^_^), and stuff, but the story itself doesn't unroll fluently enough to my liking. I mean, if all you want is sex, get the book!!! You are going to love it. Evidently the book was written between sessions of self-pleasuring and it's meant to be read that way. It doesn't make sense... but other than that is a hot little book. Oh, and like some other writers I've read... goes a little bit rutinary as every single guy seems to do exactly the same thing. Variations in style are minimal or non existent.

Memories are made of this!

The Boys of Swithins Hall is close to being a great read, but I would warn folks who don't like their sex young and graphic to steer well away from it. Having survived/enjoyed 13 years of English boarding school life myself, I can testify to the accuracy of Kent's account - minus the sex! which was never quite as hot at my school. If you can get past the sex, presuming you want to, there's a brilliant read in there - but, my goodness, it is graphic. I'd like to see Chris Kent attempt something on the same lines, minus the sex. He would then get the wider public he deserves. When is his next novel due?

A Beautiful Country

This is a beautiful book. The only pity might be that the sex scenes are so graphic that they detract from the quality of the writing and the soundness of the plotting and the characters. It is also a page-turner, even if you have to turn the pages one-handed! I found myself identifying with the lead-character despite his infuriating ambivalence, and there were times when I found myself whispering if not shouting: "Oh, just get on with it and do it!" The novel is intensely funny though the mixture of the comic and the sadness sometimes made my gasp as the tone switched as quickly as life itself does. A great read - though it's time we had a new Chris Kent novel. The pages of my copy are already too well-thumbed and sticky!