Wilt is back- in form, and in a good deal of trouble.
Tom Sharpe was born in 1928 and educated at Lancing College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He did his national service in the Marines before going to South Africa in 1951, where he did social work before teaching in Natal. He had a photographic studio in Pietermaritzburg from 1957 until 1961, and from 1963 to 1972 he was a lecturer in History at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. He is the author of sixteen bestselling novels, including Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape which were serialised on television, and Wilt which was made into a film. In 1986 he was awarded the XXIIIeme Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir Xavier Forneret and in 2010 he received the inaugural BBK La Risa de Bilbao Prize. Tom Sharpe died in June 2013 at his home in northern Spain.
The funniest writer now working in the English language
*Stephen King*
Tom Sharpe serves up the loudest laughs in literary comedy ... He
is the great post-Waugh humorist, the Wodehouse who dares plunge
into the botomless vulgarity and hysteria of our times, and a
rattling good companion on a train journey
*Mail on Sunday*
A very funny book ... it is perfect stuff, vintage Sharpe
*Punch*
Tom Sharpe is back on form ... he stays Sharpe to the bottom of the
glass
*Sunday Times*
Tom Sharpe is one of the funniest things that has happened to
fiction recently
*Financial Times*
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