Topic: Tom Sharpe dies

[Simon]

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 Thursday.

He wrote 16 novels, including Blott on the Landscape in 1975, which was adapted into a six-part BBC television series, starring David Suchet.  He also wrote the Wilt series of comedy books, the last of which - The Wilt Inheritance - he penned in 2010.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22795507

I have laughed out loud to many of his books. 

[daveeb]

Yes i used to read his stuff on many a train journey and laugh out loud, in the days when not everybody had an ear bud stuffed in each ear so i got some odd looks.

[Clive]

Mrs Clive loved the Wilt series.