In 1992 I was 18 years old and wanted ever so desperately to be a writer. I was inspired by anyone who could make me laugh. Douglas Adams and Clive James were both very important in my writing aspirations.
I’d been writing the Bill Board books since 1985, (see my previous blog,https://professorofwhimsy.com/2025/06/18/my-writing-career-part-2-the-bill-years-1985-2022/). In 1992 I was studying, or I should say, ‘studying’, for my A Levels at Strode’s’ College in Egham, Surrey, and the idea came to set the next Bill Board book there.
It was incredibly fun to write and I enlisted the help of various friends and classmates. My friend Damian designed the cover, and I included quotes from various friends throughout the novel.
The story was very slim. Bill and Justin go undercover at a sixth form college to stop criminal activity. The plot was just secondary to the endless jokes and wordplay, a lot of which, looking back, weren’t very clever at all.
So here are some of the pages of that pivotal work!
Robert Garnham 