Tom Sharpe Books In Order

Piemburg Books In Publication Order

Riotous Assembly (1971)
Indecent Exposure (1973)

Porterhouse Blue Books In Publication Order

Porterhouse Blue (1974)
Grantchester Grind (1995)

Wilt Books In Publication Order

Wilt (1976)
The Wilt Alternative (1979)
Wilt On High (1984)
Wilt In Nowhere (2004)
The Wilt Inheritance (2010)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

Blott On The Landscape (1975)
The Great Pursuit (1977)
The Throwback (1978)
Ancestral Vices (1980)
Vintage Stuff (1982)
The Midden (1996)
The Gropes (2009)

Collections In Publication Order

Selected Works (1986)

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Tom Sharpe Books Overview

Riotous Assembly

Offering all the qualities of his general bestselling fiction, this is Tom Sharpe’s blazing satire of South African apartheid, companion to Indecent Exposure.

Kommandant van Heerden of the South African Police Force takes to hanging around golf clubs, in the misguided belief that he is English to the core. But he takes things too far when he holidays in the colonial heartland, where Boers are despised as much as Black Africans.

Porterhouse Blue

Never before published in America, and now a six hour PBS presentation, Porterhouse Blue is the story of one college campus with more problems than students. A revolution at Porterhouse College sends a lot of things out in the open namely one gross of condoms.

Grantchester Grind

The instinct of the true Porterhouse man when faced with a crisis is to reach for the bottle! Then to fall back on the subtle tactical skills honed at Cambridge down the centuries: blackmail and kidnapping! But will these be enough? Menaced on all sides by the collapse of the Chapel, the tentacles of organized crime and the hovering threat of the abominable Dog’s Nose Man, will Porterhouse be forced to unleash his most fearsome weapon: college food?

Wilt

Henry Wilt has for ten years been trying to teach English literature to his students at the Fenland College of Arts and Technology. He has become bored, frustrated and possibly murdereous, so Chief Inspector Flint suspects the worst when Henry’s wife Eva goes missing. From the author of GRANTCHESTER GRIND.

The Wilt Alternative

The second novel about Henry Wilt chronicling the problems he encounters as head of the Fenland Technical College.

Wilt In Nowhere

In Tom Sharpe’s fourth uproarious Wilt novel, the indefatigable Henry Wilt embarks on the voyage of a lifetime a cross country trip through England, without map or compass, carrying little more than a backpack and the boots on his feet. A week later sees him drunk and unconscious in the back of an arsonist s pickup truck. His trip goes even further downhill from there until he revives in the hospital, unable to figure out how he could possibly stand accused of arson, assassination and robbery. Meanwhile, Eva has taken the quads to visit Uncle Wally and Aunt Joan in Tennessee. With the four girls leaving their customary trail of insanity and destruction wherever they go, not to mention a mob of embittered drug enforcement agents, Eva s journey has also spiralled out of control. Bitingly funny, Wilt In Nowhere pits Wilt against the intricacies of police persecution and the underbelly of Britain s medical facilities, brilliantly exposing the farcical realities of small town England and America. From the Trade Paperback edition.

The Wilt Inheritance

Henry Wilt, Tom Sharpe’s beleaguered hero, returns again for another hilarious dose of quickfire farce. 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Blott On The Landscape

Sir Giles, an MP of few principles, decides to build a motorway through a particularly picturesque piece of England, but he has reckoned without his wife, Lady Maude, and her enigmatic gardener, Blott. From the author of ANCESTRAL VICES, THE MIDDEN and WILT.

The Throwback

First meet young Lockhart Flawse from Flawse Hall on Flawse Fell. Then hear his story of gassing, whipping, blowing up, killing and stuffing in fact, the everyday tale of a wild child of nature plunged into the genteel mock Tudor world of surburban Surrey.

Ancestral Vices

Tom Sharpe is in top form outrageously funny Left wing academics, right wing capitalists, true blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyers all take custard pies full in the face in this boisterous knockabout farce’ The Listener. ‘A novelist who has broken out of the pack, established a wholly distinctive style such a keen eye for the ridiculous and marvellous ability to puncture it’ Scotsman. ‘An immense gift for social satire the action is unflagging’ Daily Telegraph. ‘There’s almost no one funnier’ Observer.

The Midden

When Timothy Bright’s stockbroking career goes wrong he turns to gambling to regain his financial losses. Gaining more debts, Timothy is persuaded into a touch of villainy where an encounter with an Australian substance known as Toad precipitates Timothy into the bed of a Chief Constable’s wife.

The Gropes

The hilarious new novel from bestselling author Tom Sharpe. It is one of the more surprising facts about old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their ancestors built centuries before and on land that has belonged to them since before the Norman Conquest. The Gropes of Grope Hall are one such family.A brilliantly funny novel about what happens when the women take charge. The Gropes are an old English family based in Northumberland, separated from the rest of society and as eccentric as they come. It is a line dominated by strong willed and oversexed women, determined to produce more female heirs regardless of whether their desired partners are willing or not. At the dawn of the new millennium, tired and gormless teenager Esmond is abducted and lured to Grope Hall by a descendant of The Gropes. Young Esmond is powerless to escape, and his kidnap sets in motion a stream of farcical events that will have readers laughing out loud. Tom Sharpe’s trademark humour abounds in this new novel, marking him out once again as an outstanding storyteller. From the Trade Paperback edition.