History Creator / TomSharpe

* FairForItsDay: Sharpe’s novels were written in the Seventies and Eighties, when England was going through class division and social turmoil. When he wrote two more novels in the 2000s, they were criticized for being outdated.
** His first two novels were set in apartheid-era South Africa, and were meant to draw attention to the horrific treatment of Africans at the time which the white people there were taking for granted.

* NauseaFuel: [[spoiler:Exploding earth closet]] in ''The Wilt Alternative''.

* CommunityThreateningConstruction: Motorway being built in ''Blott On The Landscape''.

** ''Blott On The Landscape'' (1975) (Also made into a TV mini-series for Creator/TheBBC)

** ''Ancestral Vices'' (1980)

* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: Walden Yapp, sentenced to life for a murder he didn't commit in ''Ancestral Vices'', is hated by prison inmates and staff alike. He feigns psychopathic tendencies to survive, and eventually get released.

* MiscarriageOfJustice: Walden Yapp gets a life sentence for a murder he didn't commit in ''Ancestral Vices''.

* SteamPunk: The Synchronised Ablution Bath in ''Ancestral Vices''.

* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Sharpe’s preferred pairing is to have couples of skinny or slender men paired with well-built women, to the point where he received criticism for objectifying his female characters. One book even had him pair a dwarf with a six-foot woman (they were HappilyMarried, though the husband often got crushed/suffocated in bed during coitus…).

* GoldDigger: Mrs Flawse in ''The Throwback''. Also the Countess, aka Constance Sugg, in ''Vintage Stuff''.

* GoldDigger: The Countess, aka Constance Sugg, in ''Vintage Stuff''.

* MeaningfulName: Sharpe used colorful names like Wilt, Blott, Yapp, Petrefact, Slymne, Skullion and Flawse for his characters.

* HadToComeToPrisonToBeACrook: Walden Yapp, sentenced to life for a murder he didn't commit, is hated by prison inmates and staff alike. He feigns psychopathic tendencies to survive, and eventually get released.

* SerialKillingsSpecificTarget: Inverted in ''Ancestral Vices''. Emmeline, the only one convinced that Walden Yapp didn't murder the diminutive Willy Coppett, sets out on a spree of attempting to kidnap other Persons of Restricted growth to make it appear that the culprit is still at large.

* Literature/PorterhouseBlue Series:-
** ''Literature/PorterhouseBlue'' (1974) (Made into a TV mini-series, ''Series/PorterhouseBlue'', for Creator/Channel4)
** ''GrantchesterGrind'' (1995)

** ''Literature/TheWiltAlternative'' (1979)
** ''Literature/WiltOnHigh'' (1984)
** ''Literature/WiltInNowhere'' (2004)
** ''Literature/WiltInTriplicate'' (omnibus) (1996)
** ''Literature/TheWiltInheritance'' (2010)

** ''BlottOnTheLandscape'' (1975) (Also made into a TV mini-series for Creator/TheBBC)
** ''TheGreatPursuit'' (1977)
** ''TheThrowback'' (1978)
** ''AncestralVices'' (1980)
** ''VintageStuff'' (1982)
** ''TheMidden'' (1996)
** ''TheGropes'' (2009)

* TinyGuyHugeWife: Sharpe’s preferred pairing is to have couples of skinny or slender men paired with well-built women, to the point where he received criticism for objectifying his female characters. One book even had him pair a dwarf with a six-foot woman (they were HappilyMarried, though the husband often got crushed/suffocated in bed during coitus…).

Tom Sharpe (1928-2013) was a Cambridge-educated British author of comic {{Farce}} novels. He is perhaps best known for his Literature/{{Wilt}} series of comic novels, but the Piemburg farces, which are drawn from his time living and working in [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra apartheid South Africa]], are also worth a honorable mention. (He was deported from South Africa for subversion and not taking apartheid seriously). He had been described as England's funniest living writer, but in a country also boasting Sir Creator/TerryPratchett, Creator/TomHolt and Creator/RobertRankin, that was perhaps open to debate.

* Eagleland: Sharpe writes American characters as crass and foul-mouthed.
* FairforitsDay: Sharpe’s novels were written in the Seventies and Eighties, when England was going through class division and social turmoil. When he wrote two more novels in the 2000s, they were criticized for being outdated.

* FairforitsDay: Sharpe’s novels were written in the Seventies and Eighties, when. When he wrote two more novels in the 2000s, they were criticized for being outdated.

* TinyGuyHugeWife: Sharpe’s preferred pairing is to have couples of skinny or slender men paired with well-built women, to the point where he received criticism for objectifying his female characters. One book even had him pair a dwarf with a six-foot woman (they were HappilyMarried, though the husband got crushed in bed during coitus…).

* The anthology Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of Fantasy (1998) features a story by Creator/TomSharpe.

Tom Sharpe (1928-2013) was a Cambridge-educated British author of comic {{Farce}} novels. He is perhaps best known for his Literature/{{Wilt}} series of comic novels, but the Piemburg farces, which are drawn from his time living and working in [[TheApartheidEra apartheid South Africa]], are also worth a honorable mention. (He was deported from South Africa for subversion and not taking apartheid seriously). He had been described as England's funniest living writer, but in a country also boasting Sir Creator/TerryPratchett, Creator/TomHolt and Creator/RobertRankin, that was perhaps open to debate.

** ''Literature/PorterhouseBlue'' (1974) (Made into a TV mini-series, ''Series/PorterhouseBlue'', for ChannelFour)

* The anthology Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of Fantasy (1998) features a story by TomSharpe.

* PorterhouseBlue Series:-
** ''Literature/PorterhouseBlue'' (1974) (Made into a TV mini-series, ''PorterhouseBlue'', for ChannelFour)

Tom Sharpe (1928-2013) was a Cambridge-educated British author of comic {{Farce}} novels. He is perhaps best known for his Literature/{{Wilt}} series of comic novels, but the Piemburg farces, which are drawn from his time living and working in [[TheApartheidEra apartheid South Africa]], are also worth a honorable mention. (He was deported from South Africa for subversion and not taking apartheid seriously). He had been described as England's funniest living writer, but in a country also boasting Sir Creator/TerryPratchett, creator/TomHolt and Creator/RobertRankin, that was perhaps open to debate.

Tom Sharpe (1928-2013) was a Cambridge-educated British author of comic {{Farce}} novels. He is perhaps best known for his Literature/{{Wilt}} series of comic novels, but the Piemburg farces, which are drawn from his time living and working in [[TheApartheidEra apartheid South Africa]], are also worth a honorable mention. (He was deported from South Africa for subversion and not taking apartheid seriously). He had been described as England's funniest living writer, but in a country also boasting Sir Terry Pratchett, Tom Holt and Robert Rankin, that was perhaps open to debate.