From the blurb:
Tom Sharpe's individual blend of robust farce and deeply cutting satire makes merry mockery of Grub Street. Frensic is a snuff-taking, port-drinking literary agent with "a nose for a bestseller". He receives a manuscript from and anonymous author's solicitor - "an odyssey of lust... a filthy story with an even filthier style".
Foreseeing huge profits in the US, Frensic places teh book with Hutchmeyer, "the most illiterate publisher in the world", who insists that the book's author go on a promotional tour of the States. Frensic produces Peter Piper who agrees to be passed off as the author of Pause O Men for the Virgin.
An innocent abroad in the States, Piper is bedded by Mrs. Hutchmeyer, a "biblionut into literacy", and is the unwitting cause of confusion upon confusion, disaster upon disaster.

My thoughts:
I went through a phase of reading Tom Sharpe books many many years ago. As a result I have very little memory of them other than that they contain some very adult humour.

This copy of the book has a different cover to the one shown.

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Left on a bench in the sunken garden

My daughter (2 1/2 years old) and I were looking at the fountain in Reigate's Priory park and she said lets go and sit on that bench. I saw the book immediately in it's plastic bag and only upon closer inspection did I discover that it had been left deliberately What a lovely idea and what a lovely thing to find. The added bonus is that many years ago I read some Tom Sharpe and really enjoyed it - so I'm looking forward to reading this one.


CAUGHT IN REIGATE SURREY UNITED KINGDOM