Dornford Yates
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Cecil William Mercer, known by his pen name Dornford Yates, was an English writer and novelist whose novels and short stories, some humorous, some thrillers, were best-sellers during the Interwar Peri
Cecil William Mercer in 1909
Tom Sharpe
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Thomas Ridley Sharpe was an English satirical novelist, best known for his Wilt series, as well as Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape, all three of which were adapted for television.
Dornford Yates
…and 1983) in which he examined the work of Yates and two contemporary thriller writers, John Buchan and Sapper. The 1973 novel Indecent Exposure by Tom Sharpe plays up the 'Englishman' that Dornford Yates created in his novels. There is a group of characters in the satirical novel who style themselves as the…
Pembroke College, Cambridge University