There's No Pride In Prejudice - Whelpton, Tony
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There's No Pride In Prejudice is a sequel to Billy's War, but you don't necessarily need to have read Billy's War first - though if you haven't, you will probably want to read it afterwards! Biily Frecknall is a university student when we first meet him in this book, and we share his experiences in various countries of the world (France, USA, Yugoslavia, as well as his native Britain). Even when he was a little boy Billy was a fighter, fighting for what he believed was right, and he learns quite early that many people in this world claim to believe in a fair and just society - whilst…mehr

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There's No Pride In Prejudice is a sequel to Billy's War, but you don't necessarily need to have read Billy's War first - though if you haven't, you will probably want to read it afterwards! Biily Frecknall is a university student when we first meet him in this book, and we share his experiences in various countries of the world (France, USA, Yugoslavia, as well as his native Britain). Even when he was a little boy Billy was a fighter, fighting for what he believed was right, and he learns quite early that many people in this world claim to believe in a fair and just society - whilst simultaneously restricting that fairness and justice to sections of society of their own choosing, The two loves of Billy's life ultimately teach him what the results of such discrimination are, and he goes on to use the worldwide success and fame he gains in his chosen career to campaign for fairness and justice throughout the world. His enemy is prejudice in all its forms. He describes prejudice as ''a disease, a virulent and malign disease, a disease of the mind. I have a vision of a brain encircled by barbed wire. And barbed wire, I might remind you, has barbs that point both ways. And so does prejudice - it damages both those who harbour it, and those who are its target". But, despite its serious theme, this is fundamentally a happy book, a book full of hope How could it be otherwise when Billy Frecknall's aims are identical to those of the founding fathers of the USA: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? And when you finish reading the book, you'll need to ask yourself two questions: If I were Billy, would I have had the courage to do what he did? and If I were listening to Billy, would I have been swayed by the force of his arguments? Because, at the end of the day, these are issues which are absolutely fundamental to the happy survival of the human race!
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Autorenporträt
Although he is now 86, Tony Whelpton has written seven novels in the last six years. He has been writing books for nearly forty years, but turned to fiction late in life, and has been so successful that he wishes he had started earlier! He is the author of thirty or so school and college text books - mostly in French- as well as two books on cricket, and a history of the Cheltenham Bach Choir, of which he was elected Vice-President after retiring from singing at the age of 80. He was born in Hyson Green, Nottingham in January 1933, and was educated at St Mary's Junior School, High Pavement Grammar School (where he was taught English by novelist Stanley Middleton, winner of the 1974 Booker Prize), Goldsmiths College (University of London), Birkbeck College (University of London) and the University of Lille. He taught French for four years each at Beckenham & Penge Grammar School and Lowestoft Grammar School, then moved into Higher Education, ultimately becoming Principal Lecturer in French at Trent Polytechnic (later Nottingham Trent University), where he spent 17 years. For more than 25 years he was Chief Examiner in French at O and A Levels and also at GCSE for one of the largest examining boards in the UK. He is also an experienced journalist and broadcaster: he produced and presented the first ever schools programme on UK local radio, a French programme on BBC Radio Nottingham for junior schools, called Écoutez, les enfants! He has sung at the BBC Proms, he came second in the European Final of the World French Spelling Championships in 1990, and appeared on the prestigious television quiz Mastermind on BBC1 in 2009. Tony's attitude to life is that it is there for living and he believes that getting old is not an excuse for sitting around doing nothing; one of his favourite quotations comes from the French cellist Paul Tortelier: 'Everybody should die young - but as late in life as possible'. Now you understand why Tony is still writing!