Works

Plays

The South African, 1961

Novels

Riotous Assembly, 1971

Indecent Exposure, 1973

Porterhouse Blue, 1974

Blott on the Landscape, 1975

Wilt, 1976

The Great Pursuit, 1977

The Throwback, 1978

The Wilt Alternative, 1979

Ancestral Vices, 1980

Vintage Stuff, 1982

Wilt on High, 1984

Grantchester Grind, 1995

The Midden, 1996

Wilt in Nowhere, 2004

The Gropes, 2009

The Wilt Inheritance, 2010

Short stories

‘OPSAAL! DIE BLOEDBAD KOM!’, published in Punch, 1986-07-09

‘The Norrible Dog’, published in the Littlehey Prison monthly magazine, 1989

First chapter of a new ‘Agatha Christie Thriller’, published in the Observer Magazine, 1990-08-12

‘Stirring the Pot’, published in The Daily Telegraph, 1994-01-08

Television plays

She Fell Among Thieves, 1978

Radio plays

‘Introducing Mr Dolfuss’, Literary Consequences, BBC Radio Four, 1991-12-30 (Tom Sharpe is the third of five satirical writers to contribute an episode)

Contributions to other works

Introduction to The Best of Saki, 1976

Introduction to Blind Corner by Dornford Yates, 1983

Preface to In search of Blandings, N. T. P. Murphy, 1986

Introduction to Sign Language by Caroline Fitton, 1987

‘Note by Tom Sharpe’, in the liner notes of Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 23 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by Alfred Brendel, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, and Neville Marriner, CD, 1999

‘Tom Sharpe’, in The Time of Your Life, compiled and illustrated by John Burningham, 2002

Newspaper & magazine articles

‘Striking campus’, The Sunday Times Magazine, 1976-05-09

‘Alias Dornford Yates’, The Times, 1976-07-17

‘Yates: master of escapism’, Cambridge Evening News, 1976-08-05

‘After the millenium set in’ (Tom Sharpe reviews Sunset at Blandings by P G Wodehouse), Cambridge Evening News, 1977-11-22

‘Simple record’ (Tom Sharpe reviews Magubane’s South Africa by Peter Magubane), The Times, 1978-08-03

‘The dark side of Dornford…’ (Tom Sharpe reviews Dornford Yates: A Biography by A J Smithers), Evening Standard, 1982-03-03

‘Too many a note…’ (Tom Sharpe reviews Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K .Jerome, assisted by Christopher Matthew and Benny Green), Evening Standard, 1982-09-01

‘A Life in the Day of Tom Sharpe’, The Sunday Times, 1983-07-03

‘Me and my word processor’, The Listener, 1985-04-25

‘Disaster in the deep bed’, The Observer Magazine, 1985-05-19

‘Foreigners to each other’, The Daily Telegraph, 1986-11-18

‘The Wodehouse man’, Pick of Punch, 1986

‘Returning to the laager: Tom Sharpe on South Africa’s condition’, The Daily Telegraph, 1988-02-27

‘Rant & Rave: Tom Sharpe’, Daily Express, 1989-03-31

‘Untrue blue’ (Tom Sharpe reviews Rotten Borough by Oliver Anderson), Evening Standard, 1989-04-06

‘Viper sensitive’, Evening Standard, 1989-10-20

‘Konstabel country’, Evening Standard, 1989-29-12

‘Let’s Give Wodehouse his Proper Due’, Literary Review, 1990-09

‘Harassment and the twanged bra syndrome’, Evening Standard, 1992-03-16

‘The gin and gags set’ (Tom Sharpe reviews Unsweet Charity by Keith Waterhouse), Evening Standard, 1992-03-19

‘The seedy side of life’ (Tom Sharpe reviews They Came from SW19 by Nigel Williams), Evening Standard, 1992-07-02

‘A Blot in My Life’, Daily Telegraph, 1995-09-09

‘Blott on his landscape’, The Times, 1999-05-01

‘Tom Sharpe on… The Beastly Chronicles of Saki‘, Evening Standard Hot Tickets, 1999-08-13

‘Diary: Tom Sharpe’, The Spectator, 2002-10-26

‘Hysterical laughter of the damned’, The Guardian, 2002-12-21

Letters

Cambridge Evening News, 1977-15-02

‘Assessing Dornford Yates’, The Times, 1978-04-06

‘Dwarfs and sex but no murder’, The Sunday Times, 1981-01-11

‘Thatcher’s opposition to sanctions against Pretoria’, The Independent, 1990-02-16

‘Balancing the books at Deutsch’, The Independent, 1990-09-16

Unpublished works

Novels

Town

Autobiography

Letters to Monsieur Printemps (started ~1998)

A Patchwork Life (~2001)

A Stranger to Himself: Tom Sharpe’s Autobiography