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Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe
Category: Fiction
Sir Giles Lynchwood, millionaire property developer and Tory MP, is determined to see a motorway driven through the ancestral home of his spouse, Lady Maud. As local opposition grows, the MP is devoured by lions, and Lady Maud marries her gardener, Blott.
Grantchester Grind by Tom Sharpe
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Porterhouse Blue Ser.
Though as cunning as ever, the formidable Skullion - previously head porter, now elevated to Master - is showing signs of physical frailty after his stroke. So the tricky business of appointing a new Master must start all over again. Meanwhile the College's monstrous debts refuse to go away, and a sinis ...Show more
Indecent Exposure by Tom Sharpe
Category: Fiction
A blazing satire of South African apartheid, Indecent Exposure is Tom Sharpe's brilliant follow-up to his Riotous Assembly. Once again the setting is Piemburg, the deceptively peaceful looking capital of Zululand, where Kommandant van Heerden, Konstabel Els, and Luitenant Verkramp continue to terrorize ...Show more
Large Print Sudoku by Tom McCluskie, Michael Sharpe and Leo Marriott
Category: Puzzles books
Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe
Category: Fiction | Series: Porterhouse Blue Ser.
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 of the Dean, the Senior Tutor and, most intransigent of all, Skullion the Head Porter.
Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe
Category: Fiction
When a doyenne of South African white society reveals she has killed her black cook - who was also her lover - Kommandant van Heerden, the new police chief, does all within his misguided power to stop the news leaking out, and to thwart a fashionable trend for taking black lovers.
Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe
Category: Fiction
Offering all the qualities of his general bestselling fiction, this is Tom Sharpe's blazing satire of South African apartheid, companion to Indecent Exposure.
The Great Pursuit by Tom Sharpe
Category: Fiction
"A totally filthy novel to put the literary world in spasms but sure to make a shameful pile of money in America. Frensic, a literary agent with a nose for a bestseller (as well as port and snuff), places this hot property with Hutchmeyer - who is the least respected publisher in the world. And a gullib ...Show more
The Gropes by Tom Sharpe
Category: Fiction
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 Grope Hall are one such family.... A brilliantly funny novel ab ...Show more