About the Author: Tom Sharpe
Tom Sharpe was born in 1928 and educated at Lancing College and Pembroke
College, Cambridge. He did his national service in the Marines before moving 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