Graduate Careers Australia
The Graduate Grapevine - Number 5, September 2006
From the Archives – ‘The Great Careers Service Novel’
While digging through the GCA Vaults we found this gem from the GCCA Newsletter, No. 38 October 1985 – ‘The Great Careers Service Novel’.
‘It had to come. Or perhaps, more accurately, the first instalment (and a review) has come in the September issue of the UK careers advisers magazine Phoenix.
Try this for an opening paragraph:
“It was a bright summer morning as Rex Storm coaxed the powerful engine of his white Golf GTI into throbbing action. Rex lived alone and although he had many friends, hardly anyone really knew him. His colleagues in AGCAS were certainly baffled when he gave up his job as technical director with NASA to join LoughboroughUniversity as a careers adviser. Treble Oxford blue, a first-class degree in astrophysics, 6ft 3ins of sinewy strength topped by a mane of golden curls, he was a man difficult to ignore.”
The title is “Wild Wind in Loughborough”, the author is one Chris Phillips, the publisher Wills and Doon (no relation), and the review in the same issue of Phoenix makes one curious to read more. Who could resist a book of which it is said, “Whilst one finds complete absence of brackets somewhat disturbing, this is more than compensated for by skilful injection of the hyphen as an effective lubricant in the smooth flow of dialogue.”
We are now waiting for the video.’
If any of our Graduate Grapevine readers have read this book and enjoyed the ‘effective lubricant’ of Chris Phillips’ hyphens we’d love to hear from you!
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