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"Флоузы, или Кровь предков" - доза уморительного британского фарса от Тома Шарпа, автора бестселлеров "Уилт" и "Новый расклад в Покер-хаусе" • Локхарт Флоуз вынужден попрощаться со своей сказочной жизнью мота и расточителя бок о бок с брюзгливым Флоузом Старшим, его богатым дедом. Теперь ему придётся остепениться, жениться и завести семью где-то в пригороде. Локхарта, совершенно не приспособленного к современному обществу из-за средневекового воспитания, подталкивает к радикальным мерам его желание вернуться в родовое гнездо. Ему придётся запугивать, шантажировать и убивать людей целыми улицами... ну или найти его неуловимого отца, чтобы имение могло перейти к нему по наследству • Но массовое убийство может оказаться более простым вариантом для не умеющего жить по-человечески юноши, свято уверенного в том, что к матери его принёс аист

Веселая порция британского фарса от Тома Шарпа, английского писателя-юмориста, автора бестселлеров "Увядание" и "Портерхаус Блю" • В этом романе участвуют левые ученые, правые капиталисты, сельская знать, рабочие, крестьяне, полиция и юристы • Книга на английском языке • A hilarious dose of British farce from Tom Sharpe, the bestselling author of Wilt and Porterhouse Blue • This title involves left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyers

Timothy Brights doesn't exactly live up to his name. Brought up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he can't understand why the funds have been cut off, nor why friends he recruited as Lloyds' Names no longer want to talk to him • When gambling fails, Timothy turns to embezzlement, but it's the lesser offence of helping himself to some strangely aromatic tobacco that propels him up the motorway and into bed with the Chief Constable's wife. The Chief Constable has just survived charges of bribery and perjury and is not too concerned that his efforts to dispose of Timothy involve false imprisonment, breaking and entering, and a spot of GBH. It is only when the Chief tries to frame his old adversary, the upright Miss Midden, that things begin to go seriously wrong as his underhand ploy opens up the way to spectacular mayhem

A hilarious dose of British farce from Tom Sharpe, the bestselling author of Wilt and Porterhouse Blue • When Miss Hazelstone of Jacaranda Park kills her Zulu cook in a sensational crime passionel, the gallant members of the South African police force are soon on the scene: Kommandant van Heerden, whose secret longing for the heart of an English gentleman leads to the most memorable transplant operation yet recorded; Luitenant Verkramp of the Security Branch, ever active in the pursuit of Communist cells; Konstabel Els, with his propensity for shooting first and not thinking later - and also for forcing himself upon African women in a manner legally reserved for male members of their own race • In the course of the strange events which follow, we encounter some very esoteric perversions when the Kommandant is held captive in Miss Hazelstone's remarkable rubber room; and some even more amazing perversions of justice when Miss Hazelstone's brother, the Bishop of Barotseland, is sentenced to be hanged on the ancient gallows in the local prison

Though as cunning as ever, the formidable Skullion - previously head porter, now elevated to Master - is showing signs of physical frailty after his stroke. So the tricky business of appointing a new Master must start all over again. Meanwhile the College's monstrous debts refuse to go away, and a sinister American media mogul seems determined to make a television documentary on the premises, destroying part of the chapel in the process. Moreover, the widow of the previous Master is convinced that her husband was murdered, so she plants an agent in the Senior Common Room to dig up an unpleasant truth that everyone else would prefer kept under the carpet • Faced with such continuing crises, the instinct of the true Porterhouse man is to reach for the bottle - or to fall back on the subtle and traditional Cambridge skills of blackmail and kidnap

It is one of the more surprising facts about Old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their ancestors built centuries before and on land that has belonged to them since before the Norman Conquest. The Gropes of Grope Hall are one such family • The Gropes are an old English family based in Northumberland, separated from the rest of society and as eccentric as they come. It is a line dominated by strong-willed and oversexed women, determined to produce more female heirs regardless of whether their desired partners are willing • At the dawn of the new millennium, timid and gormless teenager Esmond is abducted and lured to Grope Hall by a descendant of the Gropes. Young Esmond is powerless to escape, and his kidnap sets in motion a stream of farcical events that will have readers laughing out loud

Генри Уилт больше не является жертвой своих собственных неконтролируемых фантазий. Будучи главой воссозданного факультета гуманитарных наук, он безосновательно захватил власть в Фенландском колледже искусств и технологий, и фантазии, с которыми он теперь сталкивается, - это фантазии политических фанатиков и реакционных бюрократов - в дополнение к энтузиазму его жены по поводу любой органической альтернативы под компостной кучей и настойчивости его четвероюродных братьев искать альтернативу в природе. к любой проблеме относится с непоколебимым отсутствием сентиментальности • Язвительно смешная и блестяще написанная "Альтернатива Уилту" Тома Шарпа разоблачает фарсовые аномалии, которые стали социальными нормами нашего времени • Книга на английском языке

"Дальний умысел" - доза уморительного британского фарса от Тома Шарпа, автора бестселлеров "Уилт" и "Новый расклад в Покер-хаусе" • Небольшое, но сравнительно успешное литературное агентство переживает не лучшие времена после после успешного иска о клевете против одного из их авторов • Однажды на пороге агентства оказывается рукопись под названием "Девства ради помедлите о мужчины", истории о романе восьмидесятилетней женщины и семнадцатилетнего юноши. К роману прилагается записка, дающая уважаемым агентам полный карт-бланш при одном условии: автор настаивает на соблюдении анонимности • Один американский издатель соглашается выпустить книгу за два миллиона, но настаивает на серии презентаций от автора. Агентам нужен человек, готовый сыграть эту роль, и их выбор пал на мечтающего о литературной карьере, но пока ещё не публиковавшегося Питера Пайпера

‘What is it,’ asks Tom Wolfe, ‘that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle…and wait for someone to light the fuse?’ Arrogance? Stupidity? Courage? Or, simply, that quality we call 'the right stuff'? • A monument to the men who battled to beat the Russians into space, The Right Stuff is a voyage into the mythology of the American space programme, and a dizzying dive into the sweat, fear, beauty and danger of being on the white-hot edge of history in the making

A vintage wedding, romance, and a happily-ever-after ending - what more could you want from the 'modern-day Jane Austen'? • In a small Cotswold country town, Beth, Lindy and Rachel are looking for new beginnings • So they set up a business of their own: organising stylish and perfectly affordable vintage weddings • Soon they are busy arranging other people's Big Days • What none of them know is that their own romances are waiting just around the corner

Set in Reformation Europe, Q begins with Luther's nailing of his 95 theses on the door of the cathedral church in Wittenberg. Q traces the adventures and conflicts of two central characters: an Anabaptist, a member of the most radical of the Protestant sects and the anarchists of the Reformation, and a Catholic spy and informer, on their thrilling journey across Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. The four young writers who shelter behind the pseudonym Luther Blissett have created a world of intrigue, violence and intense political and religious passion. Far from the traditional example of historical fiction, Q is the stuff of which cults are made

Rod Stewart was born the working-class son of a Scottish plumber in North London. Despite some early close shaves with a number of diverse career paths, ranging from gravedigging to professional football, it was music that truly captured his heart - and he never looked back • Rod started out in the early 1960s, playing the clubs on London's R&B scene, before his distinctively raspy voice caught the ear of the iconic front man Long John Baldry, who approached him while busking one night on a railway platform. Stints with pioneering acts like the Hoochie Coochie Men, Steampacket, and the Jeff Beck Group soon followed, paving the way into a raucous five years with the Faces, the rock star's rock band, whose offstage antics with alcohol, wrecked hotel rooms and groupies have become the stuff of legend