Peter Pook: 24 books

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...

With an ever increasing number of men and women taking up teaching as a career, it is fitting that Pook should reveal his own startling college experiences for the benefit of students about to join and for the delight of teachers whose college days are among their most vivid memories.The excellent...

You’ll enjoy Pook and Honners in the Indian Navy, savouring the sweet life of the East. Honners breaks with naval tradition by opening a boarding-house in Bombay, providing a base for his ever-growing collection of war trophies. But that ruthless disciplinarian, Commander Bray, brings the...

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...

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,...

Pook soon discovers how Scandalous Scandinavia is a hotbed of temptation as he travels through Europe to Sexy Sweden, Naughty Norway and Daring Denmark in this latest side-splitting mirth-maker of erotic encounters and unrivalled adventures.However, he finds two insurmountable hazards in the...

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...

Banking on Form is an amusing and irreverent record of a powerfully-built young athlete who became caught up in the world of banking. Problems confront young Pook as he struggles to combine the art of banking with sex, body-building and a football career—a feat which understandably threatens to overwhelm him until a clever Austrian gentleman steps in with a timely solution.

This book explores the extent to which fuzzy set logic can overcome some of the shortcomings of public choice theory, particularly its inability to provide adequate predictive power in empirical studies. Especially in the case of social preferences, public choice theory has failed to produce the set...