The Gropes [antikvár]

nni The Gropes Tom Sharpé was born in 1928 and educated at Láncing 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 XXXIIIéme Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir Xavier Forneret. He is married and divides his time between Cambridge, England and northern Spain.