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Tom Sharpe Tom Sharpe is an author specializing in books about British people, generally much smarter or much, much stupider than those around them. He pokes fun at every level of English society, even the old colonialists. Sharpe is a satirist in the grand tradition. I have never read one of his books that I didn't want to reread (and have). His style is intelligent and witty. I wish I could synopsize any or all of his books for you. Because of the complexities of each one, they almost defy a single-paragraph description. But let me try to give you a brief idea of his trilogy of books featuring Wilt. Wild is a hard working, middle-class man teaching the scum of British youth to be butchers. In the first book, he angers one of his dimwitted wife's butch friends, who drugs Wild at a party and "straps on" as it were, an inflatable doll onto Wilt's nether region. In a fit of anger, he takes the doll and dumps it into a hole at the trade school where he teaches. Someone sees this and believes that Wilt has killed his wife and is hiding the body. His wife, meantime, has gone off with her butch friend and a companion and can't be found. Well...that only takes us through the first several chapters in the book. We haven;t even gotten to the point where Wilt is being questioned by the police—who he is obviously much smarter than. I suggest you start with Wilt. That will give you a really good idea of Sharpe's style and his humor. I suggest that you visit either amazon.com (UK) or The Internet Bookshop (UK). Both allow on-line ordering with a credit card. Both get you the books in as fast as three days, but generally in a week or so. Their prices are listed in British £ (pounds Sterling) but you can compute the US costs by using this simple £ to $ calculator:
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