Douglas Maddon

The English Department's Whores: a Novel About Education Douglas Maddon

When Portia Bates is made redundant from the college she loves, she swears revenge. Soon she is diverting money from the English Department to set up a brothel and plotting the blackmail of prominent politicians. Even the cunning Portia, however, hasnt reckoned on the students ability to create enough mayhem to ruin her plansespecially when they discover a wartime arms cache beneath the college. Readers of this black satire on English education in the tradition of Tom Sharpe will never look at jacuzzis in the same way again.