Meet Wilson, an opinionated middle-aged loner who loves his dog & quite possibly no one else. In an ongoing quest to find human connection, he badgers friends & strangers alike into a series of one-sided conversations, punctuating his own lofty discursions with a brutally honest, self-negating sense of humour. After his father dies, Wilson, now irrevocably alone, sets out to find his ex-wife with the hope of rekindling their long-dead relationship, & discovers he has a teenage daughter, born after the marriage ended & given up for adoption. Wilson eventually forces all three to reconnect as a family ...

Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job & 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 & the like. & things are no better at home where his massive wife, Eva, is given to boundless & unpredictable fits of enthusiasm
- for transcendental meditation, yoga or the trampoline. But if Wilt can do nothing about his job, he can do something about his wife, in imagination at least, & his fantasies grow daily more murderous & more concrete. After a peculiarly nasty experience at a party thrown by particularly nasty Americans, Wilt finds himself in several embarrassing positions: Eva stalks out in stratospheric dudgeon, & Wilt, under the inspiration of gin, puts one of his more vindictive fantasies into effect. But suspicions are instantly aroused & Wilt rapidly achieves an unenviable notoriety in the role of The Man Helping Police With Their Enquiries. Or is he exactly helping? Wilt's problem
- although he's on the other side of the fence
- is the same as Inspector Flint's: where is Eva Wilt? But Wilt begins to flourish in the heat of the investigation, & as the police stoke the flames of circumstantial evidence, Wilt deploys all his powers to show that the Law can't tell a Missing Person from a hole in the ground.


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Brilliantly written & bitingly funny, Tom Sharpe's indefatigable hero is pitted against the vices of an aristocratic pervert, the merciless greed of a politician's wife & the seedy underbelly of Britain's medical facilities, deftly exposing the farcical realities of small-town England & America. ...

Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings & occasionally getting mildly plastered in ' The Pig in a Poke' with one of his few bearable colleagues. But the even tenor of his days is rudely interrupted when the shadow of drug dealing flickers across the Tech. Suddenly Wilt becomes the target of suspicion. His colleagues believe him to be responsible for triggering a departmental inquiry, & his old adversary Inspector Flint, knowing that he's guilty of something, sees a chance to settle a number of scores. What his wife thinks is... well, what all wives think. But what none of them have reckoned with is Wilt's talent for making new enemies. What starts with an accusation of voyeurism in the staff lavatory (of the wrong gender to boot) leads, more or less directly, to a massive confrontation at a nearby US airbase with the forces of law & order on both sides & Wilt in his usual place -- in the middle. ...

Taking a break from the serialization of his saga Clyde Fans & the design of The Complete Peanuts, critically acclaimed ...

Somewhere in a place so far up there is no down, a ship is waiting to take the nomes home
- back to wherever they came from. &
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Somewhere in a place so far up there is no down, a ship is waiting to take the nomes home. & one nome, Masklin, knows that they've got to try & contact this ship. It means going to Florida (wherever that is), then getting to the launch of a communications satellite (whatever that is). A ridiculous plan. Impossible. But Masklin doesn't know this, so he tries to do it anyway. & the first step is to hitch a ride on a new kind of truck, a truck with wings
- Concorde. The final title in the nome trilogy.
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Somewhere in a place so far up there is no down, a ship is waiting to take the nomes home
- back to wherever they came from. &
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