With his only friend a computer, Walden Yapp has lived a singular life. Professor of Demotic History at the University of Kloone, Yapp spends his days highlighting the corrupt capitalistic nature of the upper-classes, and his nights feeding Doris his computer the information he has gathered So when capitalist Lord Petrefact hires him to write a damaging family history, Yapp seizes the chance to chronicle the corrupt life of the Petrefact family. Spurred on by his expectations of dishonesty and depravity Yapp heads of the town of Buscott, where nobody is what they at first appear to be. Now a pawn in Lord Petrefact's vindictive family game, Yapp's presence is as welcome as the plague. From provoking dwarfish marital problems to uncovering an erotic toy factory Yapp's presence sparks a chain of events that ends in death, destruction and a murder trial. Going through a car wash will never feel the same again.

Product Description: Saki's satirical, comic and macabre short stories of pre-war society. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Lady Maud, with help from Blott, her Italian gardener, is determined to save her ancestral home from her MP husband's schemes to make it the site of a new highway

Product Description: Though as cunning as ever, the formidable Skullion - previously head porter, now elevated to Master - is showing signs of physical frailty after his stroke. So the tricky business of appointing a new Master must start all over again...read more

Product Description: Hilarious send-up of the publishing industry. The gullible author of a totally filthy novel, sure to make a shameful pile of money in America, is dispatched across the Atlantic for a chaotic publicity tour.

A blazing satire of South African apartheid, Indecent Exposure is Tom Sharpe's brilliant follow-up to his Riotous Assembly. Once again the setting is Piemburg, the deceptively peaceful looking capital of Zululand, where Kommandant van Heerden, Konstabel Els, and Luitenant Verkramp continue to terrorize true Englishmen and even truer Zulus in their relentless search for a perfect South Africa.

Product Description: An outrageous comic novel. Spectacular mayhem ensues when Timothy Brights, in typically dim fashion, lands in bed with the Chief Constable’s wife. And things go seriously wrong when the Chief Constable tries to frame his old adversary, the upright Miss Midden.

Product Description: A reissue of a classic comic novel, presenting a Rabelaisian portrait of a college and the ancient traditions of the university, set in Porterhouse College, world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, and its academic mediocrity.

A South African woman struggles to convince the police that she has murdered her black cook

Lady Maud, with help from Blott, her Italian gardener, is determined to save her ancestral home from her MP husband's schemes to make it the site of a new highway

Lockheart Flawse exposes the suburban foibles of his tennants in Sandicott Close. Terrified out of their wits, one by one they beat a hasty retreat and Lockheart's dream of escaping hated East Pursley, and his 12 rent-controlled houses comes a step closer.

Peregrine Roderick Clyde-Brown is a bumbling, naive and savagely dim-witted teenager, who, as his name reveals, cannot possibly be exposed to the evils of a comprehensive school. However, with his penchant for taking even the most innocent command literally, no reputable school will accept the boy who, when told that he must turn over a new leaf, begins fondling the foliage. His parents, with high hopes and a considerable amount of bribery money, search for anywhere that will take their 'late developer.' In a school that time forgot, Peregrine's 'talents' for taking orders and having no discernible individual thought seem perfect for a promising career in the upper ranks of the British Army. It is at Groxbourne that Peregrine meets Mr Gladstone, a man whose teaching style extends as far as using lashings to teach arithmetic. After Gladstone whisks the unquestioning boy off on a hysterical mystery, Peregrine ends up storming a French castle, where he unwaveringly commits mischief, mayhem and even murder!

By day Henry Wilt attempts to teach English literature to the engineering students at the polytechnic institute, and by night he fantasizes about murdering his huge, dim-witted wife

Harrassed by his formidable wife Eva and their five-year-old quadruplets, liberal studies professor Henry Wilt enjoys a brief flirtation with a foreign student before becoming an unintentional participant in a terrorist siege

The hapless anti-hero of 'Wilt' and 'The Wilt Alternative,' still teaching literature at a third-rate technical college, becomes embroiled in a series of misadventures, ranging from drug dealing and voyeurism to international espionage and the nuclear freeze movement

By day Henry Wilt attempts to teach English literature to the engineering students at the polytechnic institute, and by night he fantasizes about murdering his huge, dim-witted wife

By day, Henry Wilt attempts to teach English literature to the engineering students at the polytechnic institute, while by night he fantasizes about murdering his huge, dim-witted wife.