Tom Sharpe Boeken

Een alledaagse leraar raakt verzeild in onmogelijke situaties.

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.

Described as 'the greatest fossilist the world ever knew', this fully illustrated biography of Mary Anning highlights her significant contributions to paleontology. Drawing on recent research, Tom Sharpe offers a fresh perspective on Anning's life and character, showcasing her achievements as she gains the recognition she deserves. Born in 1799 in Lyme Regis, Anning made her living by discovering and selling fossils, revealing a previously unknown world of extinct reptiles that transformed our understanding of life on Earth. Despite her humble beginnings and lack of formal education, she emerged as a prominent figure in the early nineteenth-century geological community, gaining recognition across Europe. However, societal inequalities of class, gender, and wealth meant that she received little reward for her groundbreaking work, often overshadowed by her male counterparts. Following her death at forty-seven, Anning's contributions faded into obscurity, and her name became disconnected from her discoveries. Fortunately, her legacy has been revived, as she was recently recognized as one of the ten most influential women in British science. This biography celebrates her life and achievements, affirming her rightful place in the remarkable narrative of fossils and the Jurassic world.

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.

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

Sharpe's scintillating first novel, which established his name as the new master of comic fiction and paved the way to bestsellerdom, is a devastating look at the culture and society of South Africa, which he experienced at first hand. New cover reissue.