This completely vindicates my decision to subscribe at zero cost to Pprune, all I remembered was I enjoyed the books, the author was somewhere around the 'H' area of the alphabetically sorted stock department, and the hero was called Bully or similar - now I've got £70 of Mastercard bill and Amazon are a bit better off, and 7 books are enroute <g>
An amazing result all round, and proof (if any were needed) that OASC might not get everything right, but it was damn good at producing contestants for Trivia games :-)
I look forward with keen interest to my collection of Bandy books by first class post - many thanks to all who chipped in.