Taken from the "Knight School" TV drama. Set in St Cuthbert's Academy of Knightly Persuance, the main characters are Wally Scrope, a scholarship boy, and Sir Roger de Courcey, head boy and bully. There is much rivalry between them, especially if pupils from the girls' school are involved.
Mark Billingham was born and brought up in Birmingham. Having worked for some years as an actor and more recently as a TV writer and stand-up comedian his first crime novel was published in 2001. Mark lives in North London with his wife and two children.