Robert Liddell

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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1987
  • Latest Book:
    June 2014
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Books in Order: 8 titles

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  • Big Red

    The Australian landscape is vast and variable, from the lush green forests at the northern and southern extremes of the continent, to the harsh red desert and grasses of the inland. Spread across this diverse geography, the kangaroos roam and propaga...

  • Kind Relations

  • The Deep End

    Set in a preparatory school after the end of WWI, this is a brilliant tragi-comedy about children at the mercy of adults. Based on Liddell's own experiences, it is a classic tale of childhood comparable to L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between....

  • The Rivers of Babylon

    In this sequel to Liddell's Unreal City, the expatriate Charles Harbord presents a sophisticated picture of social life in Cairo during the last months before the Suez crisis. He is one of those transplanted twentieth century Englishmen whose half di...

  • Unreal City

    Unreal City is one of Robert Liddell's greatest works, describing the Alexandrian poet, Cavafy, at the end of his life. Told through the eyes of Charles, a timid and withdrawn Englishman, who finds himself in Alexandria at the end of the Second World...

  • The Last Enchantments

    Because it is a roman a clef with a recognizable, despicable ``key,'' Liddell's ``Oxford'' novel takes place in the fictional Christminster (or, more exactly, North Christminster), a university town with an undefinable year-round bleakness, as though...

  • Stepsons

  • Aunts

    Set on the eve of the 1938 Munich Agreement, this is a skillfully-drawn portrait of the upper-middle-classes in England before the War, with two unforgettable leading characters, Aunt Jane and Aunt Eliza, based on Liddell’s own relatives. Robert L...



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Robert Liddell has published 8 books.

Robert Liddell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Big Red, was published in June 2014.

The first book by Robert Liddell, Aunts, was published in May 1987.

No. Robert Liddell does not write books in series.
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