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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.
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.
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.
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.
New Seed For Old
The fourth in the First Born of Egypt series has Lord Canteloupe wanting a satisfactory heir so that his dynasty may continue. Unfortunately, Lord Canteloupe is impotent and his existing heir is not of sound mind. His wife Theodosia is prepared to do her duty, but finding the right partner and the occasion proves somewhat tricky, however.
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.
An Inch Of Fortune
Esme is pushed into working in his summer holidays as a way of settling his college’s bills. Hired as holiday tutor, his brief is unusual. Not expected to teach anything he is there to keep his charge out of trouble. As the summer develops Esme makes his discoveries, the presence in the background of a psychiatrist being of some concern.
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Troubadour
‘Where the twins had been a body lay in long, soft robes, and by its head a discarded lute. The head was split into halves from the apex of the skull to the nose’. Is this macabre scene only theatre, or a sign of ill omen? In the conclusion of the ‘First Born of Egypt’ saga, the fate of Conyngham, Marius Stern and other characters is decided.
