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"Described as 'the greatest fossilist the world ever knew', a fully illustrated biography of Mary Anning is long overdue. Drawing on recent research into her life and times, yet always aware of her character and personality, Tom Sharpe has taken a fresh and often surprising look at the achievements of a woman who is finally gaining the recognition she merits. Mary Anning was born in 1799 in the Dorset town of Lyme Regis, dying there when only forty-seven. She made her living finding and selling fossils. Her remarkable discoveries revealed a previously unknown world of extinct reptiles preserved in the surrounding cliffs and foreshore, thus helping turning our knowledge of life on earth on its head. Despite her humble origins and lack of education, when still in her early twenties she became a leading figure in the geological community of the early nineteenth century, and was known throughout Europe. Mary Anning's knowledge and skill brought few advantages. Condemned by inequalities of class, gender, and wealth, she never reaped the rewards enjoyed by her fellow geologists and palaeontologists - rewards all too often won on the back of her discoveries. After her death she gradually slipped into relative obscurity, her name losing its link to the fossils she found. Happily, that has all changed. Recently she was included on a list of the ten most influential women in the history of British science. Her reputation continues to grow, and this new biography celebrates the life of someone who has at last taken her rightful place in the astonishing story of fossils and the 200 million-year-old Jurassic world in which they were formed."

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The hilarious new novel from the bestselling author of the Wilt series

Stuck in a job he doesn't want - but can't afford to lose - as nominal Head of the Communications Department at Fenland University, Wilt is still subject to the whims of The Powers That Be, both in and outside of work. The demands of his snobbish wife Eva, and the stupendous school fees of his despicable quadruplet daughters, cause him the biggest headaches... apart from the hangovers, that is. When Eva signs him up for a summer job, teaching the gun-toting idiot son of a lusty local aristocrat, Wilt is not amused. But, as circumstances unravel and the summer goes on, Wilt sees that the situation could be put to his financial advantage, as well as giving Eva some headaches of her own. With Tom Sharpe's famous dark humour in full evidence, and an explosive plot which takes its readers to places they never realised they wanted to visit, The Wilt Inheritance is another instant classic from the British master of farce.

A brilliantly funny novel about what happens when the women take charge. 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 or not.

Der neue Rektor von Porterhouse College plant Ungeheuerliches: Porterhouse soll nicht nur wieder ein höheres Bildungsniveau erreichen, es sollen auch noch Studentinnen zugelassen werden. Doch erst die geplante Entlassung des Oberpförtners Skullion bricht dem Rektor das Genick, denn mit Skullion nahm es noch keiner auf...

C'est en sortant son chien que Wilt réfléchit à la méthode la plus efficace pour se débarrasser de sa femme, devenue bien trop encombrante à son goût. Wilt est à la croisée des chemins : professeur de culture générale dans un lycée technique pour étudiants demeurés, sa carrière est au point mort. Marié depuis bien trop longtemps à une femme frustrée et complexée, Wilt est en quête d'absolu. Il rêve de gloire, une gloire que le monde lui refuse depuis trop longtemps, et de crime, un crime dont il est sûr qu'il ferait craquer les derniers verrous qui ligotent son existence. Bref, Wilt est en crise, la crise de la quarantaine, identitaire et profonde mais incapable de prendre une décision radicale. La rencontre de sa femme avec une (fausse) riche voisine, adepte des jeux du sexe et des mauvais coups, va plonger la famille Wilt dans une centrifugeuse d'événements des plus inattendus... Tom Sharpe est sans aucun doute l'un des écrivains anglais les plus drôles de sa génération. Et Wilt l'idéale créature de son imaginaire littéraire. Cette critique de la déraison pure, drôle à souhait, n'en est pas moins une hilarante mais brillante mise en cause de notre société de consommation et des valeurs de la bourgeoisie. --Hector Chavez

Brilliantly written and bitingly funny, Tom Sharpe's indefatigable hero is pitted against the vices of an aristocratic pervert, the merciless greed of a politician's wife and the seedy underbelly of Britain's medical facilities, deftly exposing the farcic

A brilliant, biting, bestselling satire from the foremost satirist in the English language of his generation.

Sir Giles plant eine Autobahn durch die schöne englische Landschaft, doch seine Frau Maud und der Gärtner Klex setzen sich mit ungewöhnlichen Mitteln gegen den korrupten Politiker zur Wehr. Ihr Kampf gegen die Bürokratie berührt das Herz eines jeden, der ähnliche Widersprüche erlebt hat.