Billy Bunter's Banknote

Billy Bunter's Banknote is a school story by Charles Hamilton writing as Frank Richards, using the characters and settings of the Greyfriars School stories published from 1908 to 1940 in The Magnet. The book's retail price was 7s 6d.

First published in October 1948 by Charles Skilton Ltd, London, in an edition of 11,000 copies, the second in a series of post-WWII hardback novels, it was subsequently reprinted by them in 1949, 1953 and 1959, and by Hawk in January 1991. It has a dust jacket, colour frontispiece and black and white illustrations by R. J. Macdonald, who became seriously ill following a gardening accident; this delayed publication and the novel was eventually published alongside the third book in the series, Billy Bunter's Barring-Out in October 1948. An audiobook narrated by Martin Jarvis is available from CSA Word.