Wilt on High
Tom Sharpe
  • Published: 1 June 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099466482
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99

Wilt on High

(Wilt Series 3)

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26 May 2011
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1 Jun 2004
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The third hilarious Henry Wilt novel from Tom Sharpe, the British master of farce and bestselling author of Porterhouse Blue.

Wilt is back - in form, and in a good deal of trouble.

Henry Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech, attempting to drill English into plasterers, dozing through tedious committee meetings and 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, and his old adversary Inspector Flint, knowing that he's guilty of something, sees a chance to settle a number of scores.

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 and order on both sides and Wilt in his usual place - in the middle.
  • Published: 1 June 2004
  • ISBN: 9780099466482
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99
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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
The Midden
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Praise for Wilt on High

The funniest writer now working in the English language

Stephen King

Tom Sharpe serves up the loudest laughs in literary comedy ... He is the great post-Waugh humorist, the Wodehouse who dares plunge into the botomless vulgarity and hysteria of our times, and a rattling good companion on a train journey

Mail on Sunday

A very funny book ... it is perfect stuff, vintage Sharpe

Punch

Tom Sharpe is back on form ... he stays Sharpe to the bottom of the glass

Sunday Times

Tom Sharpe is one of the funniest things that has happened to fiction recently

Financial Times