Brian Martin, a former English teacher at Magdalen College School, Oxford, used his background for his first novel, North, which is now out in paperback (Pan, £7.99). The eponymous hero is a charismatic, brilliant student whose sexual exploits wreak havoc at an Oxford school.
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