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  • Shadows On The Grass

    by Simon Raven ...
    Simon Raven’s wonderfully funny cricketing memoir covers a golden age from the early 1930s to the 1950s. With his unerring eye for observation, Raven hilariously recounts matches played at Charterhouse, Cambridge and cricket grounds as far afield as Bangalore, Kenya and Corfu. The autobiography is peopled with the author’s famous and infamous friends and partners in crime and littered with ... Read more

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  • The Roses of Picardie

    by Simon Raven ...
    A string of long-lost and cursed rubies gives the title to this highly imaginative tale by Simon Raven, author of the ‘First Born of Egypt’ saga. 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. ... Read more

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  • The Fortunes of Fingel

    by Simon Raven ...
    Life with Fingel is never predictable or dull, as we discover in this collection of hilarious short stories about army life. Simon Raven, who was a regimental officer with the King’s Own Shropshire Light Infantry, writes with experience and humour. He reports on the adventures and misadventures, deeds and misdeeds, fortunes and misfortunes of the regimental rascal Fingel. We learn of Fingel’s ... Read more

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  • September Castle

    by Simon Raven ...
    Basic human desires merge with the occult in a complex and erotic tale of a hunt across Europe. Ptolemaeos Tunne is determined to discover a hoard of valuable buried treasure. His only clue is a bizarre medieval legend about a possessed Greek princess with a bad reputation. What he doesn’t know is that his sixteen-year-old mistress Jo-Jo has unwittingly betrayed him to some very dangerous enemies. ... Read more

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  • The Islands of Sorrow and Other Macabre Tales

    by Simon Raven ...
    Simon Raven is best known for his colorful personal life (he once infamously sent a telegram to his starving wife suggesting that she eat their baby) and his ten-volume saga Alms for Oblivion, but he was also a master of the macabre and supernatural, most notably in his classic vampire novel Doctors Wear Scarlet (1960). This new edition of his complete short supernatural fiction comprises the two ... Read more

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  • An Inch Of Fortune

    by Simon Raven ...
    ‘Presuming even your capacity for borrowing money without qualm or security has by now lost much of its edge, it only remains that you should make some.’ The words of the Bursar ringing in his ears, Esme Sangrail Sa Foy is pushed into working in his summer holidays as a way of settling his college’s bills. Hired by the Honourable Mrs Sandra Fairweather, as holiday tutor to her adopted son Terence, ... Read more

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  • New Seed For Old

    by Simon Raven ...
    Series Book 4 - First Born of Egypt
    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, little Tully Sarum, is not of sound mind. His wife Theodosia is prepared to do her duty when a suitable partner is found. Finding the man and the occasion proves somewhat tricky however, and it is not until ... Read more

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  • The Feathers of Death

    by Simon Raven ...
    When Lieutenant Alastair Lynch shoots young Drummer Malcolm Harley in the back for desertion in the face of an enemy attack, his action seems to be clearly justified by military precedent. But after a court martial is convened to examine the facts of the case, a different story emerges. A tale of passionate love, possessiveness, and jealousy between the two men, a brazen and scandalous ... Read more

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  • Troubadour

    by Simon Raven ...
    Series Book 7 - First Born of Egypt
    ‘Where the twins had been a body lay in long, soft robes, and by its head a discarded lute. The head was uncovered and split into halves from the apex of the skull to the bridge of the nose’. The question is whether this macabre scene is only theatre or whether it is it a sign of ill omen. In this, the concluding book in Simon Raven’s First Born of Egypt saga, the fate of Raisley Conyngham, Marius ... Read more

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  • Doctors Wear Scarlet

    by Simon Raven ...
    Richard Fountain, a promising young Cambridge scholar, went to the island of Crete to study ancient rites and pagan rituals before suddenly and inexplicably breaking off all contact with the outside world. Disturbing rumors have filtered their way back to England, whisperings of blasphemous rituals and obscene orgies, hints of terrible crimes and wanton murder . . .Three of Richard’s friends ... Read more

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  • In The Image Of God

    by Simon Raven ...
    Series Book 6 - First Born of Egypt
    The sixth in the ‘First Born of Egypt’ series sees Raisley Conyngham, Classics teacher at Lancaster College exert a powerful influence over Marius Stern. His young pupil however is no defenceless victim. Marius has a ruthless streak and an ability to sidestep tests and traps that are laid for him. Which is just as well because everybody is after something from him. ... Read more

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  • Black Sea Circuit

    An Adventure Through the Caucasus

    by The Raven Brothers, Simon Raven, Christopher Raven ...
    The legends of Jason and the Argonauts, Noah’s Ark and a tribe of fierce female warriors known as the Amazons all originate from the Black Sea.Gripped by curiosity, the Raven Brothers fire up their twenty year old Volvo that looks, “as rustic and weather-beaten as a Cold War tank” and embark on a quest to drive full circle around this ancient body of water at the birthplace of civilisation. In the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD