The campus trilogy

'One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era'Time Out

The plot lines ofThe Campus Trilogy, radiating from its hub at the redbrick University of Rummidge, trace the comic adventures of academics who move outside familiar territory. Beginning in the late 60sChanging Placesfollows the undistinguished English lecturer Philip Swallow and hotshot American professor Morris Zapp as they exchange jobs, habitats and eventually wives.Small Worldsees Swallow, Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the beautiful Angelica Pabst jet-set about the international conference scene, combining academic infighting and tourism, esoteric chat and romance. And finally, the feminist lecturer Robyn Penrose swaps the industrial novel for a hard hat inNice Workas she shadows the factory boss Victor Wilcox. Sparks fly when their beliefs and lifestyles collide.