Tom Sharpe, who died today at the age of 85, was a comic writer in the great English tradition, stretching back through PG Wodehouse and Waugh to Thackeray, Dickens, Smollett and Fielding. He combined ...

Porterhouse Blue is a novel written by Tom Sharpe, first published in 1974. There was a Channel 4 TV series in 1987 based on the novel, adapted by Malcolm Bradbury. The novel itself has a sequel, ...

LONDON — Tom Sharpe was aptly named, a writer who turned a razor-edged eye for absurdity on everything from the racism of apartheid to the squabbles of academia. The British writer behind a string of ...

The British author Tom Sharpe, writer of the 1974 novel Porterhouse Blue, has died aged 85. Sharpe, who was born in London in 1928, died in the coastal town of Llafranc in north eastern Spain on ...

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For more than 500 years, Porterhouse College has cherished tradition above all else. Unfortunately, its traditions mostly involve decadent banquets, drunkenness, and undistinguished scholarship. Enter ...

Cambridge, Great Britain, 1980s. When the headmaster of Porterhouse College dies without naming a successor, the government appoints a former graduate whose ideas clash with the extreme conservatism ...

Author Tom Sharpe has died at the age of 85. The writer was best known for his Wilt series of novels and 1974's Porterhouse Blue. Agencia EFE Spain's Europa Press today reported that Sharpe had died ...

Comic talent: Tom Sharpe, who satirised everything from apartheid to academia, has died aged 85 (Picture: EPA/Julian Martin) The novelist Tom Sharpe, whose darkly comic novels Blott On The Landscape ...

Part two of tonight's Tom Sharpe double bill is set in an ancient Cambridge college renowned for its cuisine, the prowess of its rowers and the low level of its academic achievements. When rabid ...

Satirical novelist Tom Sharpe, best known for Porterhouse Blue, Blott On The Landscape and the Wilt series, has died aged 85. The writer, who produced 16 books, several of which were adapted for TV, ...

The British author Tom Sharpe, who wrote the 1974 novel Porterhouse Blue, has died aged 85. Sharpe, who was born in London in 1928, died in the coastal town of Llafranc in north-eastern Spain on ...