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'One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era' *Time Out* The plot lines of *The 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 60s*Changing Places* follows the undistinguished English lecturer Philip Swallow and hotshot American professor Morris Zapp as they exchange jobs, habitats and eventually wives. *Small World* sees 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 in *Nice Work* as she shadows the factory boss Victor Wilcox. Sparks fly when their beliefs and lifestyles collide.