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Jones,Griff RhysJones, LloydJones, SadieSemi-DetachedIn “Semi-Detached” Griff Rhys Jonesrecreates his suburban childhood andadolescence in precise and evocativedetail. A real treat for anyone whoremembers or wants to know aboutBritain in the late 60’s and 70’s, laughaloud at Griff’s self-deprecating, elegant,affectionate prose, or understand a littlebit better how on earth they got fromthere to here.Mr PipOn a copper-rich tropical island shatteredby war, where the teachers have fledwith all most everyone else, only onewhite man stays behind, the eccentric Mr.Watts, object of much curiosity and scorn,who sweeps out the ruined schoolhouseand begins to read to the children eachday from Charles Dickens’s classic GreatExpectations.So begins this rare, original story aboutthe abiding strength that imagination,once ignited, can provide.The OutcastIt’s 1957 and Lewis Aldridge is travellingback to his home in the South of England.He is straight out of jail and nineteenyears old. His return will trigger theimplosion not just of his family, but of awhole community.45