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Thomas Ridley Sharpe (30 March 1928 – 6 June 2013) was an English satirical novelist, best known for his Wilt series, as well as Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape, which were both adapted for television.
Born in 1928 in Croydon, Sharpe was an alumnus of Pembroke College, Cambridge, before moving to South Africa for a decade then being deported for sedition for speaking out against apartheid. He returned to England to lecture before spending time between the UK and Spain, writing a series of novels. He died in 2013 from complications of diabetes.
Sharpe was born in Croydon (or Holloway and brought up in Croydon). Sharpe's father, Rev George Coverdale Sharpe, was a Unitarian minister, who was active in far right politics in the 1930s. Rev Sharpe was chairman of the Acton and Ealing branch of The Link and a member of the Nordic League who declared that he hated Jews "in the sense that he hated all corruption". Sharpe initially shared some of his father's views, but was horrified on seeing films of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Sharpe was educated at Bloxham School followed by Lancing College and then did National Service in the Royal Marines, before going to Pembroke College, Cambridge where he studied history and social anthropology.
Sharpe moved to South Africa in 1951, where he worked as a social worker and a teacher, before being deported for sedition in 1961. His time in South Africa inspired the novels Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure, in which he mocks the apartheid regime. After a play he wrote, The South African, which was critical of the regime was performed in London, Sharpe was arrested and deported from South Africa.
Upon returning to England, Sharpe took a position as a history lecturer at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, later Anglia Ruskin University, which inspired his Wilt series in which he derides popular English culture. From 1995, he and his American wife Nancy divided their time between Cambridge and their home in Llafranc, Spain, where he wrote Wilt in Nowhere. The couple had three daughters. Despite living in Catalonia he did not learn either Spanish or Catalan. "I don't want to learn the language," he said. "I don't want to hear what the price of meat is."
Sharpe died on 6 June 2013 in Llafranc, in Costa Brava, from complications of diabetes. He was 85. He was reported to have been working on an autobiography. He had also been reported to have suffered a stroke a few weeks before his death. Paying tribute, the author Robert McCrum wrote "The Tom Sharpe I knew was generous, acerbic, engaging, and full of wicked fun." Sharpe's editor at Random House, Susan Sandon remarked that he was "witty, often outrageous, always acutely funny about the absurdities of life".
Wilt was made into a film by LWT in 1989, featuring Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith and Alison Steadman.
Blott on the Landscape was adapted by BBC TV in 1985 and broadcast in six episodes of 50 minutes each. It was scripted by Malcolm Bradbury. Sir Giles Lynchwood was played by George Cole, with Geraldine James as Lady Maud and David Suchet as Blott.
In 1987, Porterhouse Blue was adapted for television, again by Bradbury, for Channel 4 in four episodes. It starred David Jason as Skullion and Ian Richardson as Sir Godber Evans.
The Los Angeles Times wrote of The Great Pursuit "No one, from author to critic, goes unscathed in this satire on the publishing business on both sides of the Atlantic. Agent Frensic comes across a deliciously filthy, but anonymous, manuscript that promises best sellerdom. Frensic supplies a fake author and they are off down the primrose path. Much of this book is funny and devastatingly accurate until the plot disperses..."
Michael Dirda said in an interview: "Tom Sharpe is very funny—but exceptionally vulgar, crude and offensive. Many view him as Britain's funniest living novelist. Most people feel that his first two novels, set in a fictionalized South Africa, are his best: Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure."
Martin Levin, in a review of Porterhouse Blue, wrote "Sharpe is one of England's funniest writers. He's in the tradition of the 19th-century satirist, Thomas Love Peacock, who wrote novels of ideas laced with physical, slapstick farce."
Adrian Mourby wrote "Tom Sharpe's Porterhouse Blue and Vintage Stuff are books that hark back to a golden age of academic dottiness, of the kind that has all but disappeared since the 1940s when Sharpe himself was a student."
Tom Payne wrote of Wilt in Nowhere "Even half an hour after reading Tom Sharpe's 14th novel, it's difficult to remember what happened in it. ... Wilt is a victim of our times, and Sharpe doesn't seem to like them much. ... Sharpe might be happier in another age – the 18th century, perhaps – but even then he'd find plenty to rail against. It's tempting to see him as a contemporary Smollett: his plots are guided by whatever vices he feels like including, or whatever images are in his head. ... Wilt in Nowhere isn't Sharpe's finest work. His best tales put the reader firmly in a world: we can cherish the memories of the atavistic dons in Porterhouse Blue, or rail at the South African police in Indecent Exposure (1973). The present novel is simply a hapless tour of bits of England and Florida, in which colourful things happen and puzzle the police."
About author and audiobooks:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Sharpe |
Wilt series
Tom Sharpe - Wilt (read by Nigel Graham)
Tom Sharpe - The Wilt Alternative (read by Andrew Cuthbert)
Tom Sharpe - Wilt On High (read by Stephen Thorne)
Tom Sharpe - Wilt In Nowhere (read by Peter Wickham)
Tom Sharpe - The Wilt Inheritance (read by Michael Tudor-Barnes)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/964d59040891ab3a35e7ec6c5b5d960d/Wilt.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f2669007b0fae0cb124f96427361755a/The_Wilt_Alternative.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/684c234b3870a39682147feb952c5d51/Wilt_On_High.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/609664a9c3d04d7f09f80e1d3ba072fa/Wilt_In_Nowhere.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/0a4368e7fe2cf80dd44027cab73c6a47/The_Wilt_Inheritance.rar.html |
Porterhouse Blue series
Tom Sharpe - Porterhouse Blue (read by Griff Rhys Jones)
Tom Sharpe - Grantchester Grind (read by Jonathan Cecil)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/c1586a88c06fdc35a92fcbb8d2a9f066/Porterhouse_Blue.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9a34f19740f9a9dd36e5faa327628330/Grantchester_Grind.rar.html |
Other novels
Tom Sharpe - Riotous Assembly (read by Andrew Cuthbert)
Tom Sharpe - Indecent Exposure (read by Andrew Cuthbert)
Tom Sharpe - Blott On The Landscape (read by David Suchet)
Tom Sharpe - The Great Pursuit (BBC)
Tom Sharpe - The Throwback (read by Simon Callow)
Tom Sharpe - Ancestral Vices (read by Griff Rhys Jones)
Tom Sharpe - Vintage Stuff (read by Stephen Fry)
Tom Sharpe - The Midden (read by Richard Mitchley)
Tom Sharpe - The Gropes (read by Michael Tudor-Barnes)
Code:
http://rapidgator.net/file/d6a6f260c5230825c9351ce5bd01ec02/Riotous_Assembly.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/8c785a336e990fab7d67cbc5f7899b3e/Indecent_Exposure.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/aa8433c7d3e16e12b12b1c0d97258602/Blott_On_The_Landscape.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/834b2e41299bc7a1561d701a5a8d4538/The_Great_Pursuit.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1c54f1b31c130b383be7712e2b0869e4/The_Throwback.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/fa8189f09ff74d0157b0eecb728e8ff7/Ancestral_Vices.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/1afe13fff9e1b77a718f2cb47e8afae1/Vintage_Stuff.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/004fed2f22524dca4260d1b75cea2196/The_Midden.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/78dd7d9764e9e22d8119d0edce112c9b/The_Gropes.rar.html |
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