Book 1
Mr Gorzug – Substitute Teacher
He came through a portal to conquer a world. He stayed to mark its homework.
The series
Mr. Gorzug
A nine-foot orc war-chief fell through a portal into a Sussex school car park and, against all sensible advice, stayed to teach. He cannot fathom email. He can read a frightened child across a crowded room in seconds.
Each book stands on its own. Read them in order and you also get the love story, the found family, and a quiet argument about where “home” really is.
What readers say
Praise for the series
★★★★★
“It's heartwarming, funny and thought provoking. He may be an orc, but Mr Gorzug would have been very useful in my school.”
★★★★★
“Funny but heart-warming at the same time. Unusual premise for a book but it works exceptionally well.”
★★★★★
“The story is clever, funny, and heartwarming … a feel good story that had me smiling all the way through.”
★★★★★
“The Art of War meets the Department of Education.”
★★★★★
“Hilarious in the so very English way! … should be required reading for all teachers in training, and for everyone who enjoys laughing at the bureaucracy we inflict on ourselves.”
★★★★★
“With how accurate Mr Moody is regarding the inner bureaucracy and over documentation of the public school system, I could have sworn he spent time teaching. It is funny, dry, and thoroughly entertaining in a way truth often is.”
★★★★★
“This series has been amusing on every page, occasionally hysterical and always accurate.”
Where he fits
He is, technically, a leak
Gorzug came through a seam between this Britain and the older, stranger one pressed up against it. He is not the only thing that has. He is simply the largest, greenest and least easily overlooked.
The rest of what gets through — quieter, damper, and rather more polite — lives next door.