Tom Sharpe was een Engelse satirische auteur, bekend om zijn bittere en schandalige humor. Zijn werken bieden scherpe kritiek op apartheid, verwaterde onderwijssystemen, Engelse klasse-snobisme, bureaucratie en algemene domheid. Sharpe parodieerde regelmatig de taal en stijl van auteurs die geassocieerd werden met de sociale groepen die hij bespotte. Zijn romans worden gekenmerkt door bizarre seksuele praktijken en maken vaak gebruik van grafische of profane taal, waarmee hij wereldwijde erkenning verwierf.
De boeken van de Engelse bestseller auteur Tom Sharpe hebben de zeldzame eigenschap dat ze de lezer veel en hardop aan het lachen maken. Bloot slaat dood is, na het hilarische Hard Gelach, het tweede boek van Tom Sharpe dat in Zuid-Afrika speelt. De ingrediënten zijn variaties op dezelfde thema's: scherpe satire, o.a. op het Zuidafrikaanse apartheidssysteem, seksuele afwijkingen en veel zwarte humor.
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"Described as 'the greatest fossilist the world ever knew', a fully illustrated biography of Mary Anning is long overdue. Drawing on recent research into her life and times, yet always aware of her character and personality, Tom Sharpe has taken a fresh and often surprising look at the achievements of a woman who is finally gaining the recognition she merits. Mary Anning was born in 1799 in the Dorset town of Lyme Regis, dying there when only forty-seven. She made her living finding and selling fossils. Her remarkable discoveries revealed a previously unknown world of extinct reptiles preserved in the surrounding cliffs and foreshore, thus helping turning our knowledge of life on earth on its head. Despite her humble origins and lack of education, when still in her early twenties she became a leading figure in the geological community of the early nineteenth century, and was known throughout Europe. Mary Anning's knowledge and skill brought few advantages. Condemned by inequalities of class, gender, and wealth, she never reaped the rewards enjoyed by her fellow geologists and palaeontologists - rewards all too often won on the back of her discoveries. After her death she gradually slipped into relative obscurity, her name losing its link to the fossils she found. Happily, that has all changed. Recently she was included on a list of the ten most influential women in the history of British science. Her reputation continues to grow, and this new biography celebrates the life of someone who has at last taken her rightful place in the astonishing story of fossils and the 200 million-year-old Jurassic world in which they were formed."
Humoristisk skildring af en småborgerlig engelsk lærer, som kommer ud for en række barokke situationer på grund af sin kones hang til at følge tidens strømninger
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.
A group of locals try to stop a proposed highway.
A brilliant, biting, bestselling satire from the foremost satirist in the English language of his generation.
Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown, a bumbling British public schoolboy, has a penchant for taking the most innocent commands literally. His adventures whisk him to a French castle, where he commits murder and mayhem. British humor is rarely captured as effectively as this. Fry accomplishes an incredible range of accents and distinctions of age, occupation and sex. If hearing an imitation of a man with a missing lower denture tickles you, then Vintage Stuff is right up your alley. "When Tom Sharpe turns his attention to a very minor public school…the result is predictably savage. Hoaxes, chases, car crashes, shootings, and general mayhem. Wicked, riotous humour.” —Daily Telegraph
