Tom Sharpe The Gropes Savage and sidesplitting Daily Express
The new novel from one of Britain's best-loved writers
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This is a romp with many of the staples of Sharpe's bestselling comedy
Daily Mail
The funniest novelist writing today
The Times
'An immense gift for social satire the action is unflagging'
Daily Telegraph
'A major craftsman in the art of farce'
Evening Standard
'Tom Sharpe is one of the funniest things that has happened to fiction recently'
Financial Times
'Britain's leading practitioner of black humour'
Punch
Tom Sharpe was born in 1928 and educated at Lancing College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He did his national service in the Marines before going 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 fourteen best-selling novels, including Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape which were serialised on television, and Wilt which was made into a film. In 1986 he was awarded the XXXIIIeme Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir Xavier Forneret. He is married and divides his time between Cambridge, England and northern Spain.
Tom Sharpe was an English satirical author, born in London and educated at Lancing College and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. After National Service with the Royal Marines he moved to South Africa in 1951, doing social work and teaching in Natal, until deported in 1961.
His work in South Africa inspired the novels Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure. From 1963 until 1972 he was a History lecturer at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, which inspired his "Wilt" series Wilt, The Wilt Alternative, Wilt on High and Wilt in Nowhere.
His novels feature bitter and outrageous satire of the apartheid regime (Riotous Assembly and its sequel Indecent Exposure), dumbed- or watered-down education (the Wilt series), English class snobbery (Ancestral Vices, Porterhouse Blue, Grantchester Grind), the literary world (The Great Pursuit), political extremists of all stripes, political correctness, bureaucracy and stupidity in general. Characters may indulge in bizarre sexual practices, and coarser characters use very graphic and/or profane language in dialogue. Sharpe often parodies the language and style of specific authors commonly associated with the social group held up for ridicule. Sharpe's bestselling books have been translated into many languages.
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It is one of the more surprising facts about Old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their ancestors built centuries before and on land that has belonged to them since before the Norman Conquest. The Gropes of Grope Hall are one such family.
Neither rich nor titled and having never excited
the envy of their more powerful and influential neigh-
bours, the Gropes had kept their heads down, worked
fields still bearing the same names as they had in
the twelfth century, and had gone about their business without taking the slightest interest in politics,
religion or anything else that could have got them
into trouble. In most cases this was not due to any
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