Emissary Publishing: 23 books

Peter Pook has graced many professions in his time, and has escaped from many difficult situations. In this latest adventure he takes up the task of teaching, bringing to his duties that unique blend of dedicated hilarity and profound near-scholarship which his thousands of readers find so hard to...

Once again Pook comes up with another original formula for mirth and sheer reading pleasure which his fans enjoy so much. Schoolmaster Pook often illustrates his lessons by anecdotes from the War. His pupils like this too, but they like it even more when nostalgia so grips Pook that he seems to reminisce...

Having learned to dance like a dervish by the age of nine at Madam Robinson’s Dancing Academy for Young Ladies, Pook set his heart on leaving school in order to follow in the talented footsteps of his Uncle Dick as an international gigolo.Being over-sized, precocious and fascinatingly plain,...

So many readers requested a sequel to Pook in Business that Pook’s Curiosity Shop was a must.This time Pook enters the high class antique world in partnership with the beautiful Olga, and financed by Honners. At once we plunge into the antique dealer’s life of auctions, private buying and...

Eager to improve his chances with the ladies, Pook takes the celebrated Beau Nash course: How to Attract Women Without Moving. Then, to try out his new power over the fair sex, he and Honners sail on a package-tour cruise aboard the Pagan Princess, bound for the torrid Mediterranean and Brochureland...

Beau Pook Proposes lays bare the jungle of the used car trade and the ruthless operators standing behind their gleaming bangers. Anything but a woman’s world, yet Pook enters it in partnership with his great-aunt Dot, a lady born before the motor car was invented, determined to make good in the...

Running an apartment house is the short cut to easy money in today’s world, so Pook purchases a huge Victorian house and converts it to what he calls a vertical village in order to bolster his ailing career as a writer.This formidable enterprise is backed by the beautiful Olga and Pook’s...

Pook & Partners introduces another dynamic personality of the Pook fun club—Al Newman, a high-pressure salesman who persuades Pook to enter the property world in pursuit of that fortune he sought in Pook in Business.One of the snags in such a partnership is Al’s wife, Lorna, who regards...

Besides being another hilarious yarn in the series, The Teacher’s Hand-Pook voices a plea from many teachers who are worried by the sometimes unhelpful programmes, methods and theories imposed upon them from above by folks not directly in the firing line of modern education. Much of this concern...