"The Throwback" By Tom Sharpe, Cover Illustration By Paul Sample (published by Arrow Books in 2002, first published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd in 1978)

Another fantastic cover by Paul Sample. http://www.paulsample-ogri.co.uk/Paul%20Sample.html

Here is also the Guardian obituary on the great comic novelist Tom Sharpe (1928 - 2013): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/06/tom-sharpe-dies