Tom Sharpe

Sir Giles Lynchwood, millionaire property developer and Tory MP, is determined to see a motorway driven through the ancestral home of his spouse, Lady Maud. As local opposition grows, the MP is devoured by lions, and Lady Maud marries her gardener, Blott.

It is crisis time again at Porterhouse. A new master must be appointed, the college debts refuse to go away, a sinister American seems determined to make a television film on the premises, and the widow of the previous master digs up an unpleasant truth. The instinct of the true Porterhouse man is to fall back on the bottle, blackmail and kidnap. Sequel to Porterhouse Blue (10154) X rated, contains offensive language.

Frensic and Futtle is a small and successful literary agency. One day, a manuscript for a book called Pause O Men for the Virgin arrives at the agency, together with a note from the author's solicitor, saying that the author wishes to remain anonymous and that the agency has carte blanche on how it deals with the book.

The populist American publisher Hutchmeyer agrees to sign a deal to publish the book in the United States for $2 million, providing the author carries out a promotional tour of the country. Sonia and Frensic decide to use aspiring but unpublished author Peter Piper to stand in for the anonymous author. But when Piper receives a proof copy of Pause from the publisher by mistake, it takes a certain amount of persuasion and arm-twisting from Sonia Futtle to convince Piper to travel to America.

CONTENT WARNING: contains explicit language

Porterhouse College is renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows and its academic mediocrity. Sir Godber Evans, ex-Cabinet Minister and the new Master, is determined to change all this, but provokes the wrath of the Dean and, most intransigent of all, Skullion the Head Porter - with hilarious and catastrophic results. X rated, contains offensive language.

Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. 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. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department Henry Wilt has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats - in addition to being harassed by his formidable wife and five-year-old quadruplets.

It is only when Wilt becomes the unintentional participant in a terrorist siege that he is forced to find an answer to the problems of power, which have corrupted greater men than he. With a mental ingenuity born of his innate cowardice, Wilt fights for those liberal values which are threatened both by international terrorism and by the sophisticated methods of police anti-terrorist agents. In the confusion that follows, Wilt resumes his dialogue with the unflagging Inspector Flint and is himself subjected to the indignity of a psycho-political profile.

CONTENT WARNING: contains explicit language and scenes of a sexual nature

Now in the era of e-mails and crises in the NHS, Wilt is pitted against the vices of an aristocrat, the greed of a politician's wife and the seedier side of Britain's medical facilities. X rated, contains offensive language.