Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Sample: his Tom Sharpe covers were ‘half Giles, half Beryl Cook, full of purple-faced men in tweeds and buxom women popping ...

BILBAO, Spain, Sept 29 (Reuters Life!) - British veteran comic novelist Tom Sharpe derives much of his dark humour from his upbringing, when he heard First World War veterans tell grim jokes of life ...