- Welcome to FictionDB, Guest
- | My Account
- | Help
Tom Sharpe
Full Series List in Order
Henry Wilt
Wilt in Nowhere ()The Wilt Alternative (Mar-1980)
Wilt (Apr-1984)
Wilt on High (Feb-1985)
Book List in Order: 16 titles
-
Blott on the Landscape
- Dec-1975
- / General Fiction
-
When philandering Sir Giles Lynchwood decides it''s time to wriggle free of his monumentally unattractive wife, Lady Maud, he knows divorce is out of the question. He can''t leave her and keep her cash; a reversionary clause on her ancestral home, Ha...
-
The Throwback
- Dec-1978
- / General Fiction
-
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 surburban...
-
The Wilt Alternative
- Mar-1980
- / General Fiction
-
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 ...
-
-
-
The Great Pursuit
- Oct-1984
- / General 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...
-
Wilt on High
- Feb-1985
- / General Fiction
-
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....
-
Grantchester Grind
- Dec-1995
- / General Fiction
-
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 Co...
-
The Gropes
- Nov-2009
- / General 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 belonge... -
-
The Wilt Inheritance
- Jun-2011
- / General 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... -
Ancestral Vices
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...
-
Indecent Exposure
In Piemburgem, the deceptively peaceful-looking capital of Zululand, Kommandant van Heerden, Konstabel Els and Luitenant Verkramp continue to terrorise true Englishman and even truer Zulus in their relentless search for a perfect South Africa. Komman...
-
The Midden
An outrageous comic novel.
Spectacular mayhem ensues when Timothy Brights, in typically dim fashion, lands in bed with the Chief Constable’s wife. And things go seriously wrong when the Chief Constable tries to frame his old adversary, the u... -
Porterhouse Blue
______________________________The 'endlessly funny' novel widely regarded as a classic of comic English literaturePorterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the soci...
-
Riotous Assembly
Tom Sharpe’s savagely funny first novel is set in South Africa, where the author was imprisoned and later deported. When Miss Hazelstone of Jacaranda Park kills her Zulu cook in a sensational crime passionnel, the hasty, rude members of the Sou...
-
Wilt in Nowhere
In Tom Sharpe’s fourth uproarious Wilt novel, the indefatigable Henry Wilt embarks on the voyage of a lifetime -- a cross-country trip through England, without map or compass, carrying little more than a backpack and the boots on his feet. A week...