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52%OFFTom Sharpe - Wilt on High: (Wilt Series 3) - 9780099466482 - 9780099466482
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Wilt on High: (Wilt Series 3)

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Description for Wilt on High: (Wilt Series 3) paperback. The shadow of drug dealing falls across Fenland Tech and suddenly Wilt finds himself the target of suspicion. With his talent for making new enemies, an accusation of voyeurism in the staff lavatory leads to a massive confrontation at a nearby US airbase, surrounded by the forces of law and order. Series: Wilt Series. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 256.

Wilt is back - in form, and in a good deal of trouble.

Henry Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in 'The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable colleagues. But the even tenor of his days is rudely interrupted when the shadow of drug dealing flickers across the Tech. Suddenly Wilt becomes the target of suspicion. His colleagues believe him to be responsible for triggering a departmental inquiry, and his old adversary Inspector Flint, knowing that he's guilty of something, sees a chance to settle a number of scores.

What starts with an accusation of voyeurism in the staff lavatory (of the wrong gender to boot) leads, more or less directly, to a massive confrontation at a nearby US airbase with the forces of law and order on both sides and Wilt in his usual place - in the middle.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
Series
Wilt Series
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099466482
SKU
9780099466482
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Tom Sharpe
Tom Sharpe was born in 1928 and educated at Lancing College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He did his national service in the Marines before going to South Africa in 1951, where he did social work before teaching in Natal. He had a photographic studio in Pietermaritzburg from 1957 until 1961, and from 1963 to 1972 he was a lecturer in History at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. He is the author of sixteen bestselling novels, including Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape which were serialised on television, and Wilt which was made into a film. In 1986 he was awarded the XXIIIème Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir Xavier Forneret and in 2010 he received the inaugural BBK La Risa de Bilbao Prize. Tom Sharpe died in June 2013 at his home in northern Spain.

Reviews for Wilt on High: (Wilt Series 3)
The funniest writer now working in the English language
Stephen King Tom Sharpe serves up the loudest laughs in literary comedy ... He is the great post-Waugh humorist, the Wodehouse who dares plunge into the botomless vulgarity and hysteria of our times, and a rattling good companion on a train journey
Mail on Sunday
A very funny book ... it is perfect stuff, vintage Sharpe
Punch
Tom Sharpe is back on form ... he stays Sharpe to the bottom of the glass
Sunday Times
Tom Sharpe is one of the funniest things that has happened to fiction recently
Financial Times

Goodreads reviews for Wilt on High: (Wilt Series 3)


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