By Christopher Stevens PUBLISHED: 19:55 EST, 6 June 2013 | UPDATED: 01:39 EST, 7 June 2013 Author and Playwright Tom Sharpe. Picture shows Tom Sharpe sat in his garden in Bridport, Dorset in 1985. He has died aged 85 A sadistic, goggle-eyed policeman, a scrawny and aggressive nymphomaniac, a politician with an excruciating perversion, a busty lesbian, a mad, retired colonel and a mild- mannered academic whose world is spinning out of control. This was the interchangeable cast of a string of racy comic bestsellers that saw Tom Sharpe hailed as the successor to Evelyn Waugh and P.G. Wodehouse.
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Author of Porterhouse Blue, Blott On The Landscape and Wilt died at home
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Farcical plots and the bawdy comedy were epitome of English humour
Tom Sharpe
Tom Sharpe
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