Browse by category
The Gropes by Tom Sharpe
Category: Fiction
The hilarious new novel from bestselling author Tom Sharpe. It is one of the more surprising facts about old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their ancestors built centuries before and on land that has belonged to them since before the Norman Conquest. The Gropes of Gro ...Show more
The Midden by Tom Sharpe
Category: Fiction
"Timothy Brights doesn't exactly live up to his name. Brought up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he can't understand why the funds have been cut off, nor why friends he recruited as Lloyds' Names no longer want to talk to him. When gambling fails, Timothy turns to embezzlement, but i ...Show more
The Throwback by Tom Sharpe
Category: Fiction
"A brilliant, biting, bestselling satire from the foremost satirist in the English language of his generation."
The Wilt Alternative by Tom Sharpe
Category: Fiction | Series: Wilt Ser.
In this, the second of Tom Sharpe's chronicles about Henry Wilt, our hero is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now conf ...Show more
The Wilt Inheritance by Tom Sharpe
Category: Fiction
Henry Wilt, Tom Sharpe's beleaguered hero, returns again for another hilarious dose of quickfire farce. 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 whims of The Powers That Be, both in ...Show more
The Wilt Inheritance by Tom Sharpe
Category: Fiction
Stuck in a job he doesn't want as nominal Head of the Communications Department at Fenland University, Wilt is still subject to the whims of The Powers That Be, both in and outside of work. The demands of his snobbish wife Eva, and the stupendous school fees of his despicable quadruplet daughters, cause ...Show more
Vintage Stuff by Tom Sharpe
Category: Fiction
Meet Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Browne, a doltish student who takes literally each & every word he hears. Acting without malice, he fuels a long-standing feud between two instructors who share a deep & mutual loathing for each other
Wilt in Nowhere by Tom Sharpe
Category: Fiction
Brilliantly written and bitingly funny, Tom Sharpe's indefatigable hero 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, deftly exposing the farcical realities of small-town England and America.'B ...Show more
Wilt in Nowhere by Tom Sharpe
Category: Fiction | Series: Wilt Ser.
Brilliantly written and bitingly funny, Tom Sharpe's indefatigable hero 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, deftly exposing the farcical realities of small-town England and America. ...Show more
Wilt on High by Tom Sharpe
Category: Fiction | Series: Wilt Ser.
Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable colleagues. But the even tenor of his days is rudely interrupted when the shad ...Show more