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Sharpe, Tom Ancestral Vices
Pan Publishing 1982 0-330-26635-7 / 9780330266352 Paperback
Paperback in good condition, pages yellowing.Scotsman'A novelist who has broken out of the pack, established a wholly distinctive style... such a keen eye for the ridiculous and marvellous ability to puncture it'Daily Telegraph'An immense gift for social satire... the action is unflagging'.
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Sharpe, Tom Blott on the Landscape
Pan 1977 0-330-25080-9 / 9780330250801 Paperback
Paperback in average condition, pages yellowing but very readable.Sir Giles, an MP of few principles, decides to build a motorway through a particularly picturesque piece of England, but he has reckoned without his wife, Lady Maude, and her enigmatic gardener, Blott.About the AuthorTom Sharpe was born in 1928 and educated at Lancing College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He did his National Service in the Marines before going to South Africa in 1951, where he did social work before teaching in Natal. He had a photographic studio in Pietermaritzburg from 1957 until 1961, when he was deported... From 1963 to 1972 he was a lecturer in History at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. In 1986 he was awarded the XXXIIIème Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir Xavier Forneret. He is married and lives in Cambridge.
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Sharpe, Tom Grantchester Grind
Pan 1996 0-330-32307-5 / 9780330323079 Paperback
Paperback in good condition. Crease to corner front cover.A Porterhouse chronicle. It's crisis time again at Porterhouse. Skullion is showing signs of frailty and the tricky task of appointing a new Master has to begin once more. Meanwhile, the college's monstrous debts refuse to go away and a sinister American seems determined to make a film on the premises.
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Sharpe, Tom Porterhouse Blue
Pan Books Ltd 1976 0-330-24667-4 / 9780330246675 Paperback
Paperback in good condition, pages yellowing.From the Inside FlapThe basis of a PBS miniseries, Porterhouse Blues confirms that Tom Sharpe is "an excellent writer and absolutely hilarious. His characterizations aredeft, his plots are brilliant, and his prose style is smooth and winning" (P.J. O'Rourke).To Porterhouse College-bastion of a formidable crew team, lavish dining hall and wine cellar, and laughable academic standards-comes a crusading new Master. Porterhouse alumni believe in manly sports, the royal family, and brandy in the library with a fervor they bring to few intellectual positions.And the college upholds a long tradition of granting degrees to a certainnumber of muttonheaded young gentlemen of enviable pedigree and adequate family contribution to the school's treasury.The new Master, afire with liberal zeal, upsets everyone's digestion with a speech outlining plans to do things that simply aren't done: the admission of women, a cafeteria to replace the revered service of the kitchens, and contraceptive dispensers in every bathroom. The shock of the new and modern rattles even the college retainers. The head porter, Skullion, perhaps the staunchest supporter of the old way, rallies some powerful graduates to the cause, including the illustrious Canon Bowel and the madly wealthy-and plain mad-Sir Cathcart D'Eath. Their counterrevolutionary efforts result, among other peculiar events, in the most bizarre disaster seen at Cambridge in five hundred years, and in an escalation of threats, bluffs, and maneuvers to shame the shadiest of politicians. And the production of an investigative documentary on the
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Sharpe, Tom The Throwback
Pan Publishing 1980 0-330-26012-X / 9780330260121 Paperback
Paperback in good condition, pages yellowing.Black humour and comic anarchy at it's best - Sunday Times.
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Sharpe, Tom The Wilt Alternative
Pan 1981 0-330-26338-2 / 9780330263382 Paperback
Paperback in good condition, pages yellowed.A novel which continues the saga of Henry Wilt, an innate coward and hen-pecked husband whose escapades include a drunken (and very painful) battle with a rosebush, an all-consuming infatuation with an overseas student, and becoming an unwilling participant in an armed siege.
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Sharpe, Tom Vintage Stuff
Arrow 2002 0-09-943554-3 / 9780099435549 Paperback
Paperback - 2002 - good condition - ladylisabooks website used books, secondhand books, out of print books, hard to find books, second-hand books, nonfiction, non-fiction books delivered world wide.'Wildly hilarious pot-shots at the public school system and the sacred cowsof adventure fiction'Daily Express'... an hilarious send-up of the Dornford Yates style of thriller with some modernistic Sharpe barbs added'
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Sharpe, Tom Wilt
Pan Books in association wit 1978 0-330-25360-3 / 9780330253604 Paperback
Paperback in good condition, pages yellowing. Cover may show the film still."His best novel yet...Mr. Sharpe has taken a great stride towards being considered a major craftsman in the art of farce." Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard.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.
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