Cluny Brown
by Margery Sharp | 
Miss Hargreaves
by Frank Baker | 
Various Pets Alive and Dead
by Marina Lewycka | 
The Extra Man
by Jonathan Ames | 
The Ask
by Sam Lipsyte | 
Norwood
by Charles Portis | 
Lord Vishnu's Love Handles
by Will Clarke | 
A Closed Eye
by Anita Brookner |
Life isn't all Ha Ha Hee Hee
by Meera Syal | 
An Absolute Scandal
by Penny Vincenzi | 
Faith Fox
by Jane Gardam | 
Polar
by T. R. Pearson | 
Titmuss Regained
by John Mortimer |
Raney
by Clyde Edgerton | 
Hunting Unicorns
by Bella Pollen | 
The Sound of Trumpets
by John Mortimer | 
Wilt
by Tom Sharpe |
The Fairy Gunmother
by Daniel Pennac | 
Riotous Assembly
by Tom Sharpe | 
Indecent Exposure
by Tom Sharpe |
Ultraliberal clergyman Simeon Simcox, rector of the village of Rapstone Fanner, leaves his entire fortune to Leslie Titmuss, a social-climbing conservative politician. As Mortimer recounts the gossip and dastardly goings-on in Rapstone Fanner, he creates a wickedly funny, totally absorbing portrait of British life from the austerity of World War II to the dubious prosperity of the eighties. This delightful social comedy was adapted by Mortimer into an eleven-part series for Masterpiece Theatre.