The Wilt Inheritance
by Tom Sharpe (Random House, 2010); audiobook read by Michael Tudor Barnes (Isis, 2011)
Erstwhile satirist Sharpe seems here merely to have given up on the world. ‘Wilt’ is notionally a comedy of (ill)manners, but the line-by-line laughs are lacking and the plot, for all its spiteful bluster, visits no comeuppance upon its singularly dislikeable cast.