- Published: 15 May 2012
- ISBN: 9780099561323
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 896
- RRP: $32.99
Alms For Oblivion Volume I
- Published: 15 May 2012
- ISBN: 9780099561323
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 896
- RRP: $32.99
Raven's unique vision of our times - classes battling, corruption raging, ideas flashing - is not only valid but valuable. He spins webs of chance, intrigue and wit to ensnare civilised values and trap the truth. It's high time we gave this very curious genius a loud, warm welcome.
David Hughes, Mail on Sunday
A ready made cult waiting to be discovered
Spectator
Raven's gusto, the robustness of his style and his powerful, if quirky, intelligence all held me rapt
Sunday Telegraph
Sparkling and fizzing... Raven has the mind of a cad and the pen of an angel
Guardian
Cracking entertainment... Dangerously, deliciously addictive
Daily Telegraph
There are some people who consider the greatest cycle of twentieth-century novels to be Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time. These people are wrong. Widmerpool and his joyless accomplices are as nothing compared to the characters in Simon Raven's majestic, scurrilous and scabrous Alms for Oblivion cycle
Guardian
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
[Raven is] a freak writer, he defies classification. In wilder moments he suggests a loose, lunatic collaboration of Trollope, Ouida and Waugh
Observer
Brisk, bawdy and reckless
Evening Standard
Crammed with comedy, suspense and action
Daily Mail