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
De vrouw van de directeurReeks
Deze serie volgt de mislukkingen van een nogal onsuccesvolle leraar wiens alledaagse bestaan voortdurend wordt verstoord door onverwachte gebeurtenissen. Geconfronteerd met ongeïnteresseerde studenten en een verstikkend privéleven, raakt hij ongewild verstrikt in dramatische situaties, waaronder politieonderzoeken en moordbeschuldigingen. Met een combinatie van passieve veerkracht, levendige fantasie en een uniek droge humor, navigeert hij echter door deze chaotische omstandigheden. Het zijn humoristische verhalen vol situationele komedie, onverwachte plotwendingen en de kenmerkende charme van Britse satire.
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The Wilt Alternative
- 325bladzijden
- 12 uur lezen
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. From the author of RIOTOUS ASSEMBLY and GRANTCHESTER GRIND.
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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.
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Wilt In Nowhere
- 320bladzijden
- 12 uur lezen
When his endlessly capricious wife Eva receives plane tickets for the family to visit Auntie Joan and Uncle Wally in Atlanta, Wilt knows only one thing - that nothing could entice him to fly three thousand miles over the water, and especially not two rotund Americans with more money than sense. What better way to escape and find equilibrium then to embark on a walking tour? Just Wilt, the countryside, and an ill-judged bottle of whiskey...Meanwhile, Eva finds her plans to inherit Joan and Wally's fortune slipping away faster than her sanity, thanks to a combination of sinister teenage quadruplets with foul mouths, and her unexpected role as lead suspect in a drug-trafficking plot.Outrageous, darkly comic, and packed with calamity on top of calamity, Tom Sharpe's latest episode of Wilt's misadventures is a razor-sharp farce that will delight fans both old and new.
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Stuck in a job he doesn't want - but can't afford to lose - as nominal Head of the Communications Department at Fenland University, Wilt is still subject to the whims of The Powers That Be, both in and outside of work. The demands of his snobbish wife Eva, and the stupendous school fees of his despicable quadruplet daughters, cause him the biggest headaches... apart from the hangovers, that is. When Eva signs him up for a summer job, teaching the gun-toting idiot son of a lusty local aristocrat, Wilt is not amused. But, as circumstances unravel and the summer goes on, Wilt sees that the situation could be put to his financial advantage, as well as giving Eva some headaches of her own. With Tom Sharpe's famous dark humour in full evidence, and an explosive plot which takes its readers to places they never realised they wanted to visit, The Wilt Inheritance is another instant classic from the British master of farce.
