The acclaimed author Tom Sharpe, who wrote the novels Porterhouse Blue, Blott On The Landscape and the Wilt series of comedies, has died at his home in Llafranc in Spain at the age of 85.
Born in London in 1928 and educated at Lancing and Cambridge, Sharpe spent time in the Royal Marines before moving to South Africa in 1951 where worked as a social worker, teacher and photographer. He...
