The Company of Fools

This charming series by Batch Magna author Peter Maughan transports the reader to a lost post-war world of touring rep theatre and once-grand people who have fallen on harder times, smoggy streets, and shared bonhomie over a steaming kettle.

1. Love and Miss Harris
2. Miss Harris in the New World

Social comedy The Company of Fools 1

Love and Miss Harris

Peter Maughan

Their home theatre in the East End of London having been bombed during the war, The Red Lion Touring Company embarks on a tour of Britain.

Social comedy The Company of Fools 2

Miss Harris in the New World

Peter Maughan

A collection of theatrical misfits goes on tour across the Atlantic in this nostalgic post-war novel sure to delight fans of PG Wodehouse and Jerome Jerome.