Wilt
  • Published: 3 January 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099435488
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99

Wilt

(Wilt Series 1)

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26 May 2011
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3 Jan 2003
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The hilarious first Henry Wilt novel from Tom Sharpe, the British master of farce and bestselling author of Porterhouse Blue.

Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home where his massive wife, Eva, is given to boundless and unpredictable fits of enthusiasm - for transcendental meditation, yoga or the trampoline.

But if Wilt can do nothing about his job, he realises he can do something about his wife - and as each day passes, his fantasies grow more murderous and more real.
  • Published: 3 January 2003
  • ISBN: 9780099435488
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99
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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 Wilt Inheritance
The Gropes
Wilt in Nowhere
The Wilt Alternative
Grantchester Grind
Indecent Exposure
Wilt on High
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Praise for Wilt

This delightful book ... lives, rises and triumphs by a slicing wit

Daily Mirror

Superb farce ... If you don't laugh your head off, Crippen wasn't guilty

Tribune

Mr. Sharpe's farce has a gritty satirical edge to it, and the world his embattled central character inhabits is all too real

Sunday Times

Tom Sharpe piles slapstick upon slapstick with the ingenious dexterity of a music-hall illusionist

Sunday Telegraph

The funniest detective story in years

Evening News

His best novel yet ... Mr Sharpe has taken a great stride towards being considered a major craftsman in the art of farce

Auberon Waugh, Evening Standard

Abominably funny

Yorkshire Post