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One of Britain's funniest and most popular writers, Tom Sharpe's style of raucous fun and outrageous satire is as uproarious when he writes of the eccentricities of the English upper classes as when he wreaks havoc on those living in South Africa.
Indecent Exposure In the chest of the Boer Chief of Police in Piemburg, Zululand beats, literally, the heart of an Englishman; his second in command, meanwhile, has a hatred of all things English which is only surpassed by his suspicion of sex. When they combine forces to create their own vision of a perfect South Africa they leave in their wake a hilarious trail of chaos and disaster.
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The Great Pursuit The gentlemanly world of publishing is not all sherry and highbrow novels... When a ruthless literary agent comes across a sure-fire bestseller, 'an odyssey of lust-a filthy story with an even filthier style', he is determined that nothing will stand in the way of its success.
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Blott on the Landscape In the flawless landscape of the English countryside the unprincipled Sir Giles Gynchwood plans to build a huge new motorway-thereby, among other things, lining his own pocket and disposing of his wife. But he has has reckoned without Lady Maude's determination, and that of her gardener, Blott. the eccentric and archaic
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Porterhouse Blue is set in world of a Cambridge college. When the new Master of Porterhouse, Sir Godber Evans determines to change the state of affairs, he provokes the wrath of die-hard traditionalists like the Dean, the Bursar and, most intransigent of them all, Skullion the Head Porter - with hilarious and catastrophic results.
