Tom Sharpe Libri

No writer has combined laughter with savagery more devastatingly than Saki. Though he died nearly ninety years ago, the blackness of his comedy is contemporary and his wit has lost none of its freshness and sparkle. At Edwardian tea tables, his elegant characters defend themselves against a malignant Nature waiting to kill and maim. As Tom Sharpe says, ‘Step out through the French windows and you are in the realms of Pan . . .’ This selection of the best of Saki’s stories gives a new generation the opportunity to be dazzlingly entertained – and to discover a rare and original contribution to English literature. ‘Start a Saki story and you will finish it. Finish one and you will start another, and having finished them all you will never forget them. They remain an addiction because they are much more than funny’ Tom Sharpe

This volume contains three of Tom Sharpe's most famous novels: "Blott on the Landscape"; "Wilt Alternative"; and "The Great Pursuit".

Described as 'the greatest fossilist the world ever knew', this fully illustrated biography of Mary Anning highlights her significant contributions to paleontology. Drawing on recent research, Tom Sharpe offers a fresh perspective on Anning's life and character, showcasing her achievements as she gains the recognition she deserves. Born in 1799 in Lyme Regis, Anning made her living by discovering and selling fossils, revealing a previously unknown world of extinct reptiles that transformed our understanding of life on Earth. Despite her humble beginnings and lack of formal education, she emerged as a prominent figure in the early nineteenth-century geological community, gaining recognition across Europe. However, societal inequalities of class, gender, and wealth meant that she received little reward for her groundbreaking work, often overshadowed by her male counterparts. Following her death at forty-seven, Anning's contributions faded into obscurity, and her name became disconnected from her discoveries. Fortunately, her legacy has been revived, as she was recently recognized as one of the ten most influential women in British science. This biography celebrates her life and achievements, affirming her rightful place in the remarkable narrative of fossils and the Jurassic world.

Henry Wilt has been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, carpenters, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home where his wife Eva is given to unpredictable fits of enthusiasm - for transcendental meditation, yoga or the trampoline.

When Lockhart Flawse is catapulted out of his upper-class and rapunzel-esque life with the curmudgeonly Flawse Senior, he must enter the world of suburbia, and marriage. Rendered an absolute twit in modern society by his medieval upbringing, Lockhart must resort to drastic tactics in his attempt to return to Flawse House. Faced with the horrors of suburbia, he must either terrorise, blackmail and potentially kill an entire street of his tenants, or attempt to find his unknown and elusive father in order to inherit the estate.However, with the belief that he was dropped into his mother's arms by a stork, killing a street of people may be the wiser option for the socially inept young man. He is also under mounting pressure, as it may all be in vain if his gold-digging mother-in-law has her way. Now the wife of Flawse Senior, she has decided that if Lockhart's wealthy grandfather can't have the decency to die on his own, she will take matters into her own hands.

A humourous novel in which a further series of mishaps await Henry Wilt at Fenland Technical College. Things soon get out of hand when he is suspected of drug dealing and his wife decides to perk up his home brew with herbal stimulants. From the author of GRANTCHESTER GRIND and WILT.

This title involves left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyers.

Set in South Africa, this broad, brutal farce begins when AfrikaansKommandant van Heerden, chief of police in the little town of Piemburg, takes a short vacation. While he indulges his Anglophile tendencies by trying to ingratiate himself with some would-be upper-class Britons, Liutenantthis is Afrikaans spelling Verkramp decides to make his part of South Africa safe from the communist threat once and for all. This he undertakes by blowing up the town's main facilities and by arresting and torturing the main citizens. Then, upon the suggestion of libidinous psychiatrist Dr. von Blimenstein, Verkramp subjects all police officers to aversion therapy to keep them away from black women. The experiment goes awry, and the police force becomes homosexual. Called back from his vacation after cuckolding his host on a fox hunt, van Heerden finds Piemburg a shambles and a raving mad Verkramp about to marry Dr. von Blimenstein. In the apocalyptic climax, van Heerden saves face with his superiors while exacting revenge on his snobbish former hosts. This timely satire will strike readers either as hilarious or beside the point. --Publisher's Weekly

A group of locals try to stop a proposed highway.