Once the holds had been emptied, the dockers would load them with salt, apples, tin, even coal (my least favorite, because it was an obvious clue to what I'd been doing all day and annoyed my mother), before they set off again to I knew not where. Cargo ships coming from distant lands and unloading their wares: rice, sugar, bananas, jute and many other things I'd never heard of. Every day I spent at the dockyard was an adventure. When he left of a morning I would often follow him to the city docks, where he worked. The only other man I can remember was my uncle Stan, who used to sit at the top of the table at breakfast time. My grandpa rarely offered an opinion on anything, but then he was deaf as a post so he might not have heard the question in the first place. Grandma said my dad had been a brave man, and once when we were alone in the house she showed me his medals. Whenever I questioned my mother about his death, she didn't say any more than that he'd served with the Royal Gloucestershire Regiment and had been killed fighting on the Western Front only days before the Armistice was signed. (Sept.I was told my father was killed in the war. While Archer hasn't revealed how many books will make up this saga (which will span one hundred years), readers will surely wait for the next with bated breath. Though Giles' father has a particular aversion to Harry, the boys' friendship proves stronger than any paternal dictates. He meets scholarly Deakins and wealthy Giles Barrington, who become his best friends, and the three strive to gain acceptance to Bristol Grammar School.
Bede's%E2%80%94a gateway to the life his mother wants for him, far from the harbor and shipping industry. The choir in turn gains him a scholarship to boys' boarding school St.
After hearing an angelic treble voice, Harry decides to join the choir and learns to read. Though Harry dreams of becoming a stevedore like his Uncle Stan, crazy Old Jack Tar shows Harry the truths of the stevedore life and becomes his surrogate father. This first title from the Clifton Chronicles introduces readers to Harry Clifton, a boy growing up in Bristol whose father mysteriously died a full year before his birth, supposedly killed in WWI. With his latest, Archer (Honor Among Thieves) delivers another page-turning, heart-stopping saga, with delightful twists, and a surprise ending.
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