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The World of Simon Raven
Although he gained fame with his classic novel series, Alms for Oblivion, which chronicled the misdeeds of English society in the 1950s and 60s, Simon Raven is also recognized as a brilliant travel writer, an unblinking reporter of the seamier side of English upper-class life, and a hilarious commentator on the sexual mores of gay London. His demise in 2001 robbed English letters of one of its most colorful characters. Expelled from Charterhouse “for the usual thing,” he was, for a time, an officer in the British Army. He gambled heavily on the horses for years, was often in debt, drank too much, and had a rich and uncommonly varied sex life. He was said to possess “the mind of a cad and the pen of an angel,” and this selection of his writing contains a magnificent array of pieces on army life, sex, school days, and travel. The quality of his writing and his fearless descriptions of the habits of the English, and indeed of all mankind, will come as a revelation.
The Captain
This is an autobiography of the writer, Simon Raven, who has always been a rebel in the eyes of the establishment. Expelled from school, he 'withdrew' from Cambridge and was nearly drummed out of his regiment for 'indecent conduct'. It was then that he decided to become a writer, a profession he saw as free from any degree of moral or social judgement.
Places where They Sing
"A short farce about the clash between Progressive and Traditional values in the UK, in 1967. The venue is Lancaster College, Cambridge, where a (seemingly) Communist agitator exploits a star student to disrupt and destroy its elitist environment."--Goodreads
Shadows On The Grass
This wonderfully funny cricketing memoir stems from the 1930s to the 1950s. With an unerring eye for observation, Raven hilariously recounts matches at Charterhouse, Cambridge and grounds as far afield as Bangalore, Kenya and Corfu. It is peopled with his famous and infamous friends and partners in crime and littered with memorable anecdotes.
Bird of Ill Omen
This hilarious instalment from Simon Raven's entertaining autobiography takes the reader to the four corners of the globe. A lifetime spent travelling - as a soldier and as a civilian - brought Raven into contact with an amazing selection of characters: Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood, Morgan Grenfell, plus eccentrics such as Colonel Cuthbert Smith and 'Parafit' Paradore. Army life, travels, meetings, dinners and calamities take place in Kenya, Bombay, the Red Sea, Greece and California, among other exotic locations. Wherever he is, Raven entertains us in typical style.
The Roses of Picardie
A string of long-lost and cursed rubies gives the title to this highly imaginative tale. Jacquiz Helmut and Balbo Blakeney, among other eccentric characters, pursue the jewels across four countries and eight centuries. Horror, intrigue and high comedy shape the story as it races towards an unforgettable climax.
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Brother Cain
Expelled from school, advised to leave university, and forced to resign from the army, Captain Jacinth Crewe has few options. He joins a sinister British Government security organisation. He trains in Rome and there is one final mission - to kill an American diplomat and his wife. The choice has to be made. And there is no turning back.
"Is There Anybody There?" Said the Traveller
Ranging from Bangalore in '46/'47 (where the author and James Prior umpire a love affair between a fellow cadet and a white witch) to Khartoum in '63 (the beginning of a romantic liaison with a woman - intermittent over 25 years) to Abu Simbel (now moved) in 1980 with Hamish and terminal row in Baden Baden, Raven creates a travel map of his life, time and passions. The author also wrote First Born of Egypt and In the Image of God.
Bring Forth the Body
Volume IX of the novel sequence Alms for Oblivion by Simon Raven, published in 1974. It was the ninth novel to be published in The Alms for Oblivion sequence and is also the ninth novel chronologically. The story takes place in England in 1972.
