Tom Sharpe, who has died in Spain at the age of ... But he was perhaps best known for his Wilt series, five novels detailing the comic misadventures of an accident-prone lecturer.

He also wrote the Wilt series of comedy books, the last of which - The Wilt Inheritance - he penned in 2010. "Tom Sharpe was one of ... played Blott in the 1985 TV adaptation of Blott on the ...

London - British writer Tom Sharpe, the author of the dark-humoured Wilt series about a harassed literature teacher, died on Thursday at the age of 85 in north-eastern Spain, his publisher said.

The young Tom Sharpe ... Wilt with increasingly random disasters throughout five books: Wilt (1976), The Wilt Alternative (1979), Wilt on High (1984) and Wilt in Nowhere (2004). The last of the ...

Tom Sharpe was a satirical writer whose ... His five novels, devoted to the lecturer Henry Wilt, in many ways typified Sharpe’s cunning way of telling a story and keeping the reader gripped.