Deze serie onderzoekt op humoristische wijze culturele botsingen en de academische wereld via het verhaal van twee professoren die van lesplaats wisselen. We volgen hun cultuurshocks en onverwachte avonturen in vreemde landen, wat leidt tot tal van absurde en geestige situaties. De vertelling raakt thema's aan als studentenonrust en uiteenlopende universitaire omgevingen, maar biedt vooral een slimme en vermakelijke kijk op menselijke lotsbestemmingen en aanpassingsvermogen. Het is een werk dat vermaakt, ongeacht uw bekendheid met de academische wereld.
When Phillip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange.
Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica - the jet-propelled academics are on the move, in the air, in "Small World. It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air.
Winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and short-listed for the Booker Prize, ‘Nice Work’ is a hilarious comedy of society and class misunderstandings.When Vic Wilcox, MD of Pringle’s engineering works, meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on. But, in time, both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other’s worlds – and about themselves.'A work of immense intelligence, informative, disturbing and diverting' Observer.
'One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era' - "Time Out." Three brilliantly comic novels revolving around the University of Rummidge and the eventful lives of its role-swapping academics.
Set in the academic world, this collection features three humorous novels that explore the complexities of university life. In Changing Places, British lecturer Philip Swallow and American Morris Zapp swap roles, navigating cultural clashes in the late sixties. Small World follows their misadventures at international conferences, introducing a colorful ensemble of characters. Nice Work presents Dr. Robyn Penrose, who finds herself at odds with a local business director, highlighting the tensions between differing ideologies and lifestyles.