Susan’s Bookshelves: Wilt by Tom Sharpe

I was discussing books which had made us laugh with a friend the other day. I was fondly recalling Gerald Durrell’s Fillets of Plaice (1971) and she mentioned Wilt. Ah yes. I remember giggling my way through Wilt not long after it was published in 1976. It was the first in Tom Sharpe’s hilariously well […]

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