The Bindles have similar, almost picaresque adventures that books of this type offer – from Mrs Brown to Mr Finchley via the ‘Diary of a Nobody’ and ‘Three Men in a Boat.’ The Bindles visit the zoo, attend a works outing to Margate (of course!), keep chickens and in one of my favourite stories Bindle reluctantly accompanies his formidable wife to chapel. Once there, Bindle fails to recognise himself as the poor sinner whose salvation is being so ardently sought, repeatedly looking around the chapel to identify the poor recalcitrant soul.
From the brief obituaries which appeared in the newspapers when Herbert Jenkins died we can see a clear head for the business of books shining through.
“As an author he developed in his ‘Bindle’ books a vein of cockney humour that made that philosophic furniture remover a very popular character. He also tried his hand at detective fiction.”
And looking at a fly leaf list of other titles, they are very hard to resist…
The Solitary Reader 