In the past month both Tom Sharpe, (Blott on the Landscape,
Porterhouse Blue, and others,) and Iain Banks, (Wasp Factory, The Crow Road and
others,) have both died.
Sharpe was a popular comedy writer, Blott on the Landscape
being televised with David Suchet in the role of Blott, before he became
Poirot.
Banks wrote fiction and science/fantasy fiction. I read The Wasp Factory
in the first year of my English degree, a very though provoking book, with a
twist at the end that5 I certainly didn’t anticipate.
There are many brilliant authors writing today, but Banks
and Sharpe’s input will be missed.
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