Wilt

The Wilt Collection: Books 1–4 brings together the first four novels in Tom Sharpe’s hilarious, outrageous Wilt series.

Meet Henry Wilt: underpaid lecturer, reluctant husband, accidental outlaw and one of Britain's most gloriously ill-equipped heroes.

Trapped in a dead-end job and surrounded by chaos at work and at home, he inadvertently, yet continuously, finds himself at the centre of increasingly outrageous disasters. Wherever he goes, misunderstandings spiral into mayhem, authority descends into farce, and the ordinary becomes spectacularly absurd.

Collecting Wilt, The Wilt Alternative, Wilt on High and Wilt in Nowhere, this collection showcases Tom Sharpe at his razor-sharp best. With hilarious satire, brilliantly escalating comic set pieces and unforgettable characters, these novels remain as brilliant, anarchic, and laugh-out-loud funny as ever.

Wilt
Meet Henry Wilt. Professionally overlooked. Demoralised at home. Passed over for promotion time and again. At work, he faces yet more years of trying to force literature into the heads of students who'd rather be anywhere else. At home, his irrepressible wife Eva throws herself into one obsession after another, while Wilt's patience wears thinner by the day.

Tom Sharpe's wildly funny classic is a brilliantly outrageous tale of frustration, farce and misunderstanding, and one of the greatest comic novels of the twentieth century.

The Wilt Alternative
Henry Wilt is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats. 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…

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

Henry Wilt is still teaching at the Fenland Tech when 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 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.

Wilt in Nowhere
When his endlessly capricious wife Eva receives plane tickets for the family to visit Auntie Joan and Uncle Wally in Atlanta, Wilt knows only one thing - that nothing could entice him to fly three thousand miles over the water, and especially not two Americans with more money than sense. What better way to escape and find equilibrium then to embark on a walking tour? Just Wilt, the countryside, and an ill-judged bottle of whiskey...

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Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) was one of Britain's most celebrated comic novelists. Best known for the Wilt novels, as well as Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape, he combined biting social satire with exaggerated farce to create some of the funniest fiction of the twentieth century. His work has been translated worldwide and continues to delight generations of listeners and readers with its irreverent humour and unforgettable characters.