"The tale of an illegitimate member of the squirearchy earning his inheritance by increasingly nasty methods - gassing, suing, whipping, blowing up, killing, stuffing - is both inventive and pacy" NEW STATESMAN

"Crazy, but done with a savage delight which will have you lauging aloud" DAILY MIRROR

"Black humour and comic anarchy at its best" SUNDAY TIMES

"Sharpe is funny, bitter, a danger to his public and should be wildly applauded by all right thinking men and women" THE LISTENER

I read this a good few years back now - and whilst this sort of thing is not really my usual fare, I did find it fairly entertaining (if occasionally a little confusing, slow & tedious) I seem to remember. Very "League Of Gentlemen" but with elements too of "Sir Henry At Rawlinson End" and maybe even "Withnail and I" and *god knows* what else. If you like your humour bitter & twisted, dark and cruel, satirical, angry and absurd - this one's probably for you!

Going to Leeds January Meet (11th).

Picked up at tonight's Leeds Bookcrossing Meetup.

Classic Tom Sharpe... very dark, very funny, very intelligent and very ingenious. Definitely worth a read!

RELEASE NOTES:

On one of the phones, near platform seven.