The Wilt Inheritance
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099493136
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $24.99

The Wilt Inheritance

(Wilt Series 5)

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1 Feb 2011
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1 Aug 2011
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A hilarious Henry Wilt novel from Tom Sharpe, the British master of farce and bestselling author of Porterhouse Blue.

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.
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099493136
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

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 moving 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 was awarded the inaugural BBK La Risa de Bilbao Prize. Tom Sharpe died in June 2013 at his home in northern Spain.

Also by Tom Sharpe

The Gropes
Wilt in Nowhere
The Wilt Alternative
Grantchester Grind
Indecent Exposure
Wilt on High
The Midden
See all

Praise for The Wilt Inheritance

A major craftsman in the art of farce...vengeful, chaotic, Swiftian in his tastes, cartoonish in his extremes, and above all wild and amusing

Observer

Britain's leading practitioner of black humour

Punch

Tom Sharpe serves up the loudest laughs in literary comedy. He is the great post-Waugh humorist, the Wodehouse who dares plunge into the bottomless vulgarity and hysteria of our times, and a rattling good companion on a train journey

Mail on Sunday

The funniest novelist writing today

The Times

The best of British farce-masters is back

Mail on Sunday

It's always a pleasure to welcome a new novel by one of the world's funniest writers

The Sunday Times

Tom Sharpe fans will be delighted with this hilarious treat

Good Book Guide

Riotous

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