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Blott On The Landscape
Tom SharpeTom Sharpe's comedy lies as much in his language and the pace of the dialogue as in the outrageous muddles and confusions of his comic situations' The Times 'This exuberant novel will cheer all those who dislike bureaucracy' Daily Telegraph ...
Wilt In Nowhere: (Wilt Series 4)
Tom Sharpe'Tom Sharpe is back and he's on cracking form' Daily Mail 'One of the most widely enjoyed comic writers in Britain ... his position at the heart of British comedy is as assured as that of the seaside postcard' Observer ''Our funniest living ...
The Wilt Inheritance: (Wilt Series 5)
Tom SharpeWith 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.
Porterhouse Blue: (Porterhouse Blue Series 1)
Tom SharpeHe is the funniest author to have emerged for years' Observer 'Chuckling good fun, a glorious romp' Sunday Express 'This supremely entertaining book is guaranteed to make you laugh' Books & Bookmen 'Tom Sharpe makes me laugh loud and long .
The Gropes
Tom Sharpe'This is a romp with many of the staples of Sharpe's bestselling comedy' Daily Mail 'The funniest novelist writing today' The Times 'An immense gift for social satire ... the action is unflagging' Daily Telegraph 'A major craftsman in the ...
Indecent Exposure
Tom Sharpe'Explosively funny, fiendishly inventive' Sunday Times 'What clinches the novel's success is Mr Sharpe's brilliant comic style. his phrasing, his timing, and his extraordinarily deft handling of the minutiae of comic incidents make for real ...
Grantchester Grind: (Porterhouse Blue Series 2)
Tom Sharpe'The best of British farce-masters is back' Mail on Sunday 'Has all the ingredients of a classic Sharpe novel - grotesque characters, outlandish plot, scabrous dialogue' The Times 'Dynamic, fertile, knockabout energy' Evening Standard 'A ...
Zizek and Politics: A Critical Introduction
Matthew SharpeThe Antinomies of Žižek's Sociopolitical Reason', in Matthew Sharpe, Geoff Boucher and Jason Glynos (eds), Traversing the Fantasy: Critical Responses to Slavoj Žižek. London: Ashgate, pp. 147–68. Sharpe, Matthew (2007). 'De Maistre ...
The Great Pursuit
Tom SharpeThe book turns out to deal with the love affair between an 80-year old woman and a 17-year old youth.
Wilt: (Wilt Series 1)
Tom Sharpe'This delightful book ... lives, rises and triumphs by a slicing wit' Daily Mirror 'Superb farce .
The Throwback
Tom SharpeWhen 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.
The Best of Saki
SakiAs Tom Sharpe says, ‘Step out through the French windows and you are in the realms of Pan . . .’ This selection of the best of Saki’s stories gives a new generation the opportunity to be dazzlingly entertained – and to discover a ...
Sleuthing the Divine: The Nexus of Science and Spirit
Kevin SharpeSharpe, a leader in the field, engagingly seeks the reality of God in the world, even as he eschews traditional theological terms and authorities.
The Midden
Tom SharpeIt is only when the Chief tries to frame his old adversary, the upright Miss Midden, that things begin to go seriously wrong as his underhand ploy opens up the way to spectacular mayhem. 'A major craftsman in the art of farce.
The Wilt Alternative: (Wilt Series 2)
Tom SharpeBitingly funny and brilliantly written, The Wilt Alternative exposes the farcical anomalies, which have become the social norms of our time.
The Pocket Magazine
More editionsAnd I answered, “What the devil does Tom Vowler want?” “Wrong end forward,” he cried. “It is the devil that is prowling for Tom Vowler; and small account the others be; but now he calleth—Tom, Tom, Tom ” This was beyond my understanding.
You Were Wrong: A Novel
Matthew SharpeMatthew Sharpe addresses his heady themes with warmth and charisma. You Were Wrong is a lovingly satiric, intelligent, and deeply enjoyable novel with a voice all its own.
Friedrich Schiller: Drama, Thought and Politics
Lesley SharpeLesley Sharpe assesses Schiller's development as a dramatist, poet and thinker against the background of his life.
Remember, Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day
J. A. SharpeJames Sharpe teases apart the tangled web of religion and politics that gave rise to the plot and wittily shows how celebration of that fateful night has changed over the centuries.
Riotous Assembly
Tom SharpeHis humour has bite and an angry underside that puts him in the great tradition of English satirists.' Stephen King 'Riotous Assembly is a masterpiece of black farce, and makes me suppose that there is a true comic genius here.
Schiller's Aesthetic Essays: Two Centuries of Criticism
Lesley SharpeHe sums up the eighteenth century while anticipating modern ideas; his notions of the naive and the sentimental, of art as play, and of beauty as semblance, have had a lasting impact on aesthetic speculation.Dr Sharpe's book is the first ...
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
Christina SharpeIn this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake.
Promise Of Hunters Ridge
Sarah BarrieHe thought about that as what was left of Cathy Sharpe was zipped inside a body bag. 'I want to talk to the housemate.' At six o'clock he went to the gym. After spending most of the day working on Cathy Sharpe's murder, Ben needed to work ...
Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, ...
Kevin SharpeIn the climactic part of his three-book series exploring the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, Kevin Sharpe employs a remarkable interdisciplinary approach that draws on literary studies and art history as well ...
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Transgender Jurisprudence: Dysphoric Bodies of Law
Andrew Sharpe' -Res Publica (Vol 8(3) 2002 pp 275-283 at pp 282-283), Dr Surya Munro of the Department of Law, Keele University '[Sharpe] expresses the hope that the book has made an important contribution ... That it has done so is beyond doubt.
Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology / Ergebnisse ...
W. ArberBull. 23, 161–168 (1967) SUBAK-SHARPE, J. H.: The genetics of herpesvirus. Cancer Res. 33, 1385–1392 (1973) SUBAK-SHARPE, J. H., BRow N, S. M., RITCHIE, D. A., TIMBURY, M. C., HALLIBURTON, I. W.: Herpes virus genetics. Advanc.
Ceremony of Innocence: A Memoir
Roger Dean SharpeIn Ceremony of Innocence Roger Sharpe proposes creation of an institute for training small group leaders who would welcome dialogue among participants, invite reconciliation, and encourage the rebuilding of American communities across ...
Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture
PreviewNotable here is Christina Sharpe's provocative account of slavery's Middle Passage as the forgotten space at the heart of The Forgotten Space. See Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham: Duke University Press, ...
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