Publisher: Pan Books. Published in England in 1980. 173 pages. His savage and side-splitting bestseller. This title involves left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyers.
Publisher: Pan Books. Published in England in 1975. 169 pages. A very hilarious novel by the very wonderful Tom Sharpe. 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.
Publisher: Pan Books. Published in 1995 in England. 176 pages. 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 sinister American...
Publisher: Pan Books. Published 1973. 135 pages. 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 true Englishmen and even truer...
Publisher: Pan Books. Published in England in 1974. 121 pages. "The funniest writer in English today." [The Washington Post Book World] Porterhouse is a Cambridge college held fast by the steel cobwebs of tradition. When Sir Godber Evans is appointed Master, disturbing whispers of radical change echo through the Court and the Cloisters. But Skullion, the intensely reactionary Head...
Publisher: Pan Books. Published in 1971 in England. 109 pages. Offering all the qualities of his general bestselling fiction, this is Tom Sharpe's blazing satire of South African apartheid, companion to Indecent Exposure.
Publisher: Pan Books. Published in England in 1977. 146 pages. A very humorous novel by the very marvelous Tom Sharpe. When snuff-taking, port-drinking, and financially strapped literary agent Frensic receives a manuscript with "bestseller" written all over it, he begins to salivate over the potentially huge profits. The one catch is that the author must remain anonymous, so...
Publisher: Pan Books. Published in England in 1996. 125 pages. A very comic novel by the very wonderful Tom Sharpe. Tom Sharpe is back - and up to his old tricks, gleefully satirizing society with his irresistibly scathing brand of humor. In The Midden, Timothy Bright doesn't exactly live up to his name. He is the not-very-acute scion of a successful family - that is, until...
Publisher: Pan Books. Published 1978. 127 pages. The devastating bestseller from "the funniest novelist writing today." [The Times] 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 a wild child of nature plunged into the genteel mock-Tudor world of suburban...
Publisher: Pan Books. Published in England in 1979. 175 pages. "Made me laugh aloud. a delight from beginning to end." [Sunday Telegraph] 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...
Publisher: Pan Books. Published in England in 1973. 125 pages. A very antic novel by the very funny Tom Sharpe. "The funniest writer now working in the English language. His humor has bite and an angry underside that puts him in the great tradition of the English satirists" [Stephen King] Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for...
Publisher: Pan Books. Published 2004. 94 pages. "The funniest novelist writing today." [The Times] When his endlessly capricious wife Eva receives plane tickets for the family to visit Auntie Joan and Uncle Wally in Atlanta, Wilt knows only one thing - that nothing could entice him to fly three thousand miles over the water, and especially not two rotund Americans with more money...
Publisher: Pan Books. Published in England in 1984. 131 pages. "The funniest writer now working in the English language." [Stephen King] 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...
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