Heads: A Campus Novel

by Chris Wallace

This hilarious exposé of the conceits and stupidities of modern university life is a must-read for students and academics. The book hits its targets with admirable precision, mixing moments of slapstick comedy with fascinating insights into the thinking of a range of academic disciplines. Satire, love story, and side-splitting humour are woven into discussions about evolution, the meaning of life, the existence of God, and the purposes of education. Heads offers readers an entertaining mix of ideas and emotions set in the fictional – but utterly believable – world of St Jude’s University. The rise and fall of its odious Vice Chancellor, Murdo Pugh, is charted with gleeful irreverence. This is a campus novel that both entertains and informs as it highlights the tragicomedy of a university system that has allowed the pursuit of knowledge to be stifled by business values and pompous managerial follies.

376 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 13, 2014

About the author

Christopher W. Wallace is an American television anchor and journalist who is the news anchor of the Fox News program Fox News Sunday. He worked for NBC as a White House correspondent and anchor for NBC Nightly News and host of Meet the Press.