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Simon Raven
Book List in Order: 16 titles
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Blood of My Bone
- Feb-1989
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In this fifth volume of Simon Raven s First Born of Egypt series, the death of the Provost of Lancaster College is a catalyst for a series of disgraceful doings in the continuing saga of the Canteloupes and their circle. Marius, under-age father of t...
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In the Image of God
- Feb-1990
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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 abili...
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Shadows on the Grass
- Jan-2001
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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 a...
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New Seed for Old
- May-2004
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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 Theodo...
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The Roses of Picardie
- Oct-2012
- / Action Adventure
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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 c...
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Troubadour
- Oct-2012
- / General Fiction
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‘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 the...
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The Feathers of Death
- May-2018
- / General Fiction
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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...
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Doctors Wear Scarlet
All his life, Richard Fountain has known only success. He is handsome, with an enviable record for school, army and university. A future career as a talented archaeologist seems assured. That is, until he travels to Greece and meets Chriseis. Chrisei...
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