Blott On The Landscape

A hilarious dose of British farce from Tom Sharpe, the bestselling author of Wilt and Porterhouse Blue. Against a powerful lobby led by the unprincipled Sir Giles, who is determined to build a motorway through their little bit of rural England, are Lady Maude and her chief weapon - Blott, an ex-Italian, naturalized Englishman. Fight fire with fire. 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 For