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Good Enough For Nelson (Artful Bodger Naval Adventures Book 6) Kindle Edition

by John Winton (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.3 67 ratings

Book 6 of 6: Artful Bodger Naval Adventures

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The Bodger embarks on his final sea-faring adventure! Perfectfor fans of P.G.Wodehouse, Spike Milligan, Richard Gordon and R.F.Deldafield

This time The Artful Bodger is in command - what could possibly go wrong…?

Dartmouth Naval College, England, 1977

It is twenty years since he was last in residence and for Captain Robert Bollinger Badger DSC RN, aka The Artful Bodger, it feels like he has never been away. Empire’s may tumble, Hell’s foundation’s quiver, but Dartmouth remains the same — at least on the surface.

But it doesn’t take long to discover that the Royal Navy’s role has changed since the 1950’s and not all the changes are to the Bodger’s liking…

In his new role, the Bodger faces the most exacting challenge of his whole career as political rumblings threaten to close the College down.

As he seeks to get a grip of the ‘mad-house’ and its inhabitants, Bodger meets old acquaintances, trainees from foreign navies, left-wing politicians and Dartmouth locals.

As he sweeps the corridors like a breath of fresh air, ancient traditions are sacrificed and training reinvigorated to satisfy a modern Navy now in need of the physical and intellectual.

Can the Bodger’s particular talent for ‘controlled notoriety’ and ‘native resourcefulness’ save the College? Has he arrived in the nick of time?

Or this time, will the Bodger go too far…?

GOOD ENOUGH FOR NELSON is the sixth hilarious military adventure story in the Artful Bodger Naval Adventure Series: classic 20th century sea stories packed full of humour and authentic details of navy life.

‘If anyone is the true descendent of Wodehouse, it is John Winton’ — Books and Bookmen

THE ARTFUL BODGER NAVAL ADVENTURE SERIES:
BOOK 1: We Joined The Navy
BOOK 2: We Saw The Sea
BOOK 3: Down The Hatch
BOOK 4: Never Go To Sea
BOOK 5: All The Nice Girls
BOOK 6: Good Enough For Nelson

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CBW2F6NS
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sapere Books (July 13, 2023)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 13, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1865 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 280 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0854951091

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Five Stars for the Entire Series

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2023

Full of humor. The Artful Bodger is more fun than Bennie Hill.
Following his career from cadet to superintendent at Dartmouth has been a terrific experience. Too bad Winton is still alive to give us more. Amazing wit..

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David G Heal

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Reviewed in Germany on February 21, 2024

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A strange book. In the last of the series, Bodger retires, and yet suddenly he turns up at Dartmouth as the Captain. Something funny is going on.
Not only that, a lot of the people from the previous books figure in this one even though it is, perhaps 20 years later.
Winton tries too hard here. All the characters are given to long diatribes about most subjects. Its almost as though he decided to write the book, then couldn't think of what to put in it.
Bizarre events. A Dartmouth yacht goes to sea and finds another yacht on fire. They call up the college helicopter. It winches the yacht's crew to safety and takes them ashore. Then there is some remark about how the rescuing yacht hadn't recognised the crew of the yacht they had rescued, and its sort of left to the imagination that they were in fact actors from the college. Then silence.
Winton tries hard here, but he fails. He should have left the series where it was, long years ago (I read the first book in about 1960).