Why is the English Department of the University of Surleighwick buying all the Romanian books it can lay its hands on? Why are private detectives spying on the staff? What is the riot squad doing in Hay-on-Wye? Find out the answers in THE SURLEIGHWICK EFFECT, a compelling tale of a British university entering an exciting new era of market forces and profitability. Here, at last, is a book which explores the vibrant new commercial values of modern academic life, as well as its more traditional features such as fraud, stupidity, drunkenness, witchcraft, ignorance and lechery.