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Tom Sharpe
A South African woman struggles to convince the police that she has murdered her black cook.
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Kommandant van Heerden, the chief of police of Piemburg, terrorizes true Englishmen and even truer Zulus in his search for a perfect South Africa, while Luitenant Verkramp and Dr. von…
In this novel, Sharpe turns his attention to a very minor public school, taking hilarious pot-shots at the public school system. The humorous and wild incidents include hoaxes, chases, car…
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In this novel, Miss Hazelstone, from Jacaranda Park mansion, kills her Zulu cook in a sensational crime of passion. Soon the gallant local constabularies arrive. At the same time, a…
Wilt’s problems never end. Perhaps because he is gifted with an incredible talent for getting mixed up in the most awful messes without even realising, and a no less admirable…
Henry has been passed over for a promotion yet again at his university job. Things are no better at home with his wife, Eva. Wilt can do nothing about his…
Never before published in America, and now a six-hour PBS presentation, Porterhouse Blue is the story of one college campus with more problems than students. A revolution at Porterhouse College…
Featuring the character who is pitted against the vices of an aristocratic pervert, the merciless greed of a politician’s wife and the seedy underbelly of Britain’s medical facilities, this work…
The shadow of drug dealing falls across Fenland Tech and suddenly Wilt finds himself the target of suspicion. With his talent for making new enemies, an accusation of voyeurism in…
Chronicles about Henry Wilt, the hero who is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department, he has assumed power without…
This title involves left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyers.
A new illustrated biography of the fossilist Mary Anning is long overdue, and she is finally getting the recognition she merits. She was born in 1799, and her remarkable discoveries…
We bring together in this volume the five hilarious adventures of the unspeakable Henry Wilt, Tom Sharpe’s most popular character. Henry Wilt is gifted with an immense talent for getting…
This story concerns the debut of a totally filthy novel which puts the literary world in spasms. Frensic, a literary agent with a nose for a bestseller (as well as…
Porterhouse is a backwoods institution which is supported by fee-paying students who buy their degrees. Sir Godber Evans, the new Master, is determined to make radical changes, provoking the wrath…
Stuck in a job he doesn’t want - but can’t afford to lose - as nominal Head of the Communications Department at Fenland University, Wilt is still subject to the…
Henry Wilt has for ten years been trying to teach English literature to his students at the Fenland College of Arts and Technology. He has become bored, frustrated and possibly…
When Miss Hazelstone of Jacaranda Park kills her Zulu cook in a sensational crime passionel, the gallant members of the South African police force are soon upon the scene. In…
The landscape is flawless, the trees majestic, the flora and the fauna are right and proper, the whole is picturesquely typical of rural England at its best. Sir Giles, an…
First meet young Lockhart Flawse from Flawse Hall on Flawse Fell. Then hear his story of gassing, whipping, blowing up, killing and stuffing - in fact, the everyday tale of…
Once again the setting d Piemburgem, the deceptively peaceful-looking capital of Zululand, where Kommondant van Heerden, Konstabel Els and Luitenant Vekramp continue to terrorise true Englishman and even truer Zulus…
Timothy Bright does not live up to his name. Brought up to regard ever-lasting wealth as his birthright, he cannot understand why the funds have been cut off and why…
It’s crisis time again at Porterhouse. Skullion is showing signs of frailty and the tricky task of appointing a new Master has to begin once more. Meanwhile, the college’s monstrous…
The Gropes of Grope Hall are one such family…. The Gropes are an old English family based in Northumberland, separated from the rest of society and as eccentric as they…
When, in 1940, Marie and John Williamson welcomed two English brothers to join them for the duration of the war, no one knew how long it would last. Marie wrote…
Tom Leins
Sharp Knives & Loud Guns is the brand-new collection of Paignton Noir Case Files from cult crime writer Tom Leins, featuring the novelettes Slug Bait, Smut Loop and Sweating Blood…
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Tom Sharpe,Felix Dahn,Jacques Pourcel
Henry Wilt has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of brutes. Things…
Robert Edgar
Can Tom Tuff rescue the big ship in time?
The story of Tom Tuff to the Rescue is about a little tug boat who could - a brave boat who…
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Tom Wesselmann: La Promesse du Bonheur, held at the Villa Paloma, Nouveau Mus e National de Monaco, this catalogue is a critical overview…
Jasper Sharp,Tom Mes
Explores the resurgence of Japanese cinema, profiling 19 contemporary Japanese filmmakers, from the well-known - Kitano, Miike, Miyazaki - to the up-and-coming - Naomi Kawase, Satoshi Kon, Shinya Tsukamoto -…
Jack Sheffield
The delightful new standalone novel from Jack Sheffield, author of the much-loved Teacher series. 'Wry observation and heartwarming humour in equal measure' - Alan Titchmarsh
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