Super Sale Whatever Next!

Billy Hopkins is thrilled to be released from the trials and tribulations of teaching when he takes early retirement. He’s just buzzing with ideas for filling his time and making a spare buck – whether it’s investing in apparently fail-safe business enterprises, starting up himself as an entrepreneur specialising in doll’s houses or writing up the story of his life. Only one of those is likely to have the desired result on the financial front – but Billy’s hilarious descriptions of his efforts, together with lovely glimpses of his ever-expanding family, make WHATEVER NEXT! a delightful and absolutely satisfying novel, which will update on-going readers and introduce many new ones to the unique world of the Hopkins household.

Billy Hopkins (better known to his family and friends as Wilfred Hopkins) was born in Collyhurst in 1928 and attended schools in Manchester.Before going into higher education, he worked as a copy boy for the Manchester Guardian.He later studied at the Universities of London, Manchester and Leeds and was involved in school-teaching and teacher-training in Liverpool, Manchester, Salford and Glasgow.He also worked in African universities in Kenya, Zimbabwe and Malawi. Billy Hopkins, author, husband and father of six, died aged 83 in 2012.