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Blott On The Landscape
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Author : Tom Sharpe
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-05-26
Blott On The Landscape written by Tom Sharpe and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-26 with Fiction categories.
The landscape is flawless, the trees majestic, the flora and the fauna are right and proper. All is picturesquely typical of rural England at its best. Sir Giles, an MP of few principles and curious tastes, plots to destroy all this by building a motorway smack through it, to line his own pocket and at the same time to dispose of his wife, the capacious Lady Maude. But Lady Maude enlists a surprising ally in her enigmatic gardener Blott, a naturalised Englishman in whom adopted patriotism burns bright. Lady Maude's dynamism and Blott's concealed talents enable them to meet pressure with mimicry, loaded tribunals with publicity and chilli powder, and requisition orders with wickedly spiked beer. This explosively comic novel will gladden the heart of everyone who has ever confronted a bureaucrat, and spells out in riotous detail how the forces of virtue play an exceedingly dirty game when the issue is close to home.
Blott On The Landscape
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Author : Tom Sharpe
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1984
Blott On The Landscape written by Tom Sharpe and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Fiction categories.
In Blott on the Landscape, the landscape is flawless and the trees majestic until Sir Giles, a man of few principles and curious tastes, plots to destroy all this by building a highway smack through it, to line his own pocket and at the same time to dispose of his wife, the capacious Lady Maude. Sir Giles recruits to his side Hoskins, a corrupt local official, Lord Leakham, the environmental equivalent of a hanging judge, and Dundridge, a troublesome bureaucrat with an unhealthy passion for order. Pitted against this powerful lobby are a mere handful of local residents led by Lady Maude. This explosively comic novel will gladden the heart of everyone who has ever confronted a bureaucrat. Tom Sharpe spells out in riotous detail how the forces of virtue play an exceedingly dirty game when the issue is close to home.
Blott On The Landscape
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Author : Tom Sharpe
language : en
Publisher: Isis Large Print Books
Release Date : 1988
Blott On The Landscape written by Tom Sharpe and has been published by Isis Large Print Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Fiction categories.
Lady Maud, with help from Blott, her Italian gardener, is determined to save her ancestral home from her MP husband's schemes to make it the site of a new highway
Riotous Assembly
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Author : Tom Sharpe
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-05-26
Riotous Assembly written by Tom Sharpe and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-26 with Fiction categories.
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 on the scene: Kommandant van Heerden, whose secret longing for the heart of an English gentleman leads to the most memorable transplant operation yet recorded; Luitenant Verkramp of the Security Branch, ever active in the pursuit of Communist cells; Konstabel Els, with his propensity for shooting first and not thinking later - and also for forcing himself upon African women in a manner legally reserved for male members of their own race. In the course of the strange events which follow, we encounter some very esoteric perversions when the Kommandant is held captive in Miss Hazelstone's remarkable rubber room; and some even more amazing perversions of justice when Miss Hazelstone's brother, the Bishop of Barotseland, is sentenced to be hanged on the ancient gallows in the local prison. Not a 'political' novel in any previously imagined sense, Riotous Assembly provided a completely fresh approach to the South African scene - an approach startling in its deadpan savagery and yet also outrageously funny.
Porterhouse Blue
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Author : Tom Sharpe
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-05-26
Porterhouse Blue written by Tom Sharpe and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-26 with Fiction categories.
______________________________ The 'endlessly funny' novel widely regarded as a classic of comic English literature Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social cache it confers on the athletic sons of country families. Sir Godber Evans, ex-Cabinet Minister and the new Master, is determined to change all this. Spurred on by his politically angular wife, Lady Mary, he challenges the established order and provokes the wrath of the Dean, the Senior Tutor, the Bursar and, most intransigent of all, Skullion the Head Porter - with hilarious and catastrophic results.
Ancestral Vices
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Author : Tom Sharpe
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-05-26
Ancestral Vices written by Tom Sharpe and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-26 with Fiction categories.
With his only friend a computer, Walden Yapp has lived a singular life. Professor of Demotic History at the University of Kloone, Yapp spends his days highlighting the corrupt capitalistic nature of the upper-classes, and his nights feeding Doris his computer the information he has gathered So when capitalist Lord Petrefact hires him to write a damaging family history, Yapp seizes the chance to chronicle the corrupt life of the Petrefact family. Spurred on by his expectations of dishonesty and depravity Yapp heads of the town of Buscott, where nobody is what they at first appear to be. Now a pawn in Lord Petrefact’s vindictive family game, Yapp’s presence is as welcome as the plague. From provoking dwarfish marital problems to uncovering an erotic toy factory Yapp’s presence sparks a chain of events that ends in death, destruction and a murder trial. Going through a car wash will never feel the same again.
The Wilt Alternative
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Author : Tom Sharpe
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-05-26
The Wilt Alternative written by Tom Sharpe and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-26 with Fiction categories.
Henry Wilt 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 confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats - in addition to his wife's enthusiasm for every Organic Alternative under the compost heap and the insistence of his quadruplets on looking at every problem with an unflinching lack of sentimentality. It is only when Wilt becomes the unintentional participant in a terrorist siege that he is forced to find an answer to the problems of power, which have corrupted greater men than he. With a mental ingenuity born of his innate cowardice, Wilt fights for those liberal values which are threatened both by international terrorism and by the sophisticated methods of police anti-terrorist agents. In the confusion that follows, Wilt resumes his dialogue with the unflagging Inspector Flint and is himself subjected to the indignity of a psycho-political profile. Bitingly funny and brilliantly written, The Wilt Alternative exposes the farcical anomalies, which have become the social norms of our time.
The Great Pursuit
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Author : Tom Sharpe
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-05-26
The Great Pursuit written by Tom Sharpe and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-26 with Fiction categories.
Frensic and Futtle is a small and successful literary agency. But following a successful court case by a woman who claimed to have been libeled by one of their authors, the agency rapidly loses business. One day, a manuscript for a book called Pause O Men for the Virgin arrives at the agency, together with a note from the author's solicitor, saying that the author wishes to remain anonymous and that the agency has carte blanche on how it deals with the book. The book turns out to deal with the love affair between an 80-year old woman and a 17-year old youth. The populist American publisher Hutchmeyer agrees to sign a deal to publish the book in the United States for $2 million, providing the author carries out a promotional tour of the country. Sonia and Frensic decide to use aspiring but unpublished author Peter Piper to stand in for the anonymous author. But when Piper receives a proof copy of Pause from the publisher by mistake, it takes a certain amount of persuasion and arm-twisting from Sonia Futtle to convince Piper to travel to America.
Vintage Stuff
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Author : Tom Sharpe
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-06-01
Vintage Stuff written by Tom Sharpe and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with Fiction categories.
Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his penchant for taking even the most innocent command literally, no reputable school will accept the boy who, when told that he must turn over a new leaf, begins fondling the foliage. His parents, with high hopes and a considerable amount of bribery money, search for anywhere that will take their 'late developer.' In a school that time forgot, Peregrine's 'talents' for taking orders and having no discernible individual thought seem perfect for a promising career in the upper ranks of the British Army. It is at Groxbourne that Peregrine meets Mr Gladstone, a man whose teaching style extends as far as using lashings to teach arithmetic. After Gladstone whisks the unquestioning boy off on a hysterical mystery, Peregrine ends up storming a French castle, where he unwaveringly commits mischief, mayhem and even murder!
The Throwback
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Author : Tom Sharpe
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-05-26
The Throwback written by Tom Sharpe and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-26 with Fiction categories.
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.