Tom Sharpe

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Amado and Lloris triumph in Liffey Descent

Three years ago Spain’s Luis Amado and Miguel Lloris fell short by just one place in their bid to win the Liffey Descent. For the 2017 version there w(...)

Jenny Egan and Peter Egan at the Irish Marathon Championships this year. They will team up in a mixed K2 at the Liffey Descent on Saturday. Photograph: Mick Feeney.
Followers of Liffey Descent can track top boats on online map

The Liffey Descent, the highlight of the domestic calendar of Irish canoeing, will boast some novel features this Saturday. The race, which has an en(...)

Tom Sharpe, who has died aged 85, was in the great tradition of English comic novelists and his bawdy style and vulgar approach were said to have made bad taste into an art form.
Acclaimed comic writer with a strong social conscience

Tom Sharpe, who has died aged 85, was in the great tradition of English comic novelists and his bawdy style and vulgar approach were said to have made(...)

Tom Sharpe’s Wilt series included six books of which the last, The Wilt Inheritance, was published in 2010.
Noted British author Tom Sharpe dies at age 85
  • UK
  • June 6, 2013, 10:50

British satirical author Tom Sharpe, known for his Wilt novel series, has died aged 85, publisher Random House said this morning.The London-born autho(...)