Simon Raven

A dazzling sequence of novels about the English misbehaving at home and abroad. Cracking entertainment... Dangerously, deliciously addictive - Daily Telegraph Raven is a freak writer, he defies classification. In wilder moments he suggests a loose, lunatic collaboration of Trollope, Ouida and Waugh - Observer Enter Alms for Oblivion, Simon Raven's dazzling cycle of ten novels, all telling separate stories...

A dazzling sequence of novels about the English misbehaving at home and abroad. Each of the novels in Alms for Oblivion is an elegant morality tale, beautifully composed, sparkling with appreciation of the sheer limitless variety of human wickedness — TLS Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of intrigue...

A dazzling sequence of novels about the English misbehaving at home and abroad. 'Brisk, bawdy and reckless' - Evening Standard 'A freak writer, he defies classification. In wilder moments he suggests a loose, lunatic collaboration of Trollope, Ouida and Waugh' - Observer The Alms for Oblivion sequence is an extraordinary series of murders, suicides, affairs, fighting, fires and at least...