Bird Of Ill Omen - Couverture souple

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 master’s pen has lost none of its Ciceronian, Rabelaisian subtlety.’ – Kenneth McLeish, Sunday Times ‘Outrageous and…gloriously funny…’ – Peter Burton, Gay Times ‘His relish for his subject and for a milieu which persists…almost as a state of mind continues to be infectious.’ – John Coldstream, Daily Telegraph ‘As always with Simon Raven, the joy of his book is its hilarity, first-rate prose and breathtaking lack of hypocrisy.’ – Gillian Greenwood, The Times