How to be Topp
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How to be Topp was a book that Coal Hill student John Brent liked. It was written by Geoffrey Williams and illustrated by Ronald Searle.
Inside the book, a picture was captioned, "every skool hav a resident buly who is fat". According to Susan Foreman, the boy depicted in the picture looked just like Francis Minto, a bully at Coal Hill. (PROSE: Time and Relative)
Behind the scenes
In the real world, How to be Topp was written by Geoffrey Willans, not "Williams". This may have been a poke at the intentional bad spelling in the book.
