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  • Simon Raven

    …by the 10-part novel sequence Alms for Oblivion, which includes The Rich Pay Late (1964), Fielding Gray (1967), The Judas Boy (1968), Sound the Retreat (1971), and The Survivors (1976). Some characters reappear in his later seven-book series The First-Born of Egypt, which starts with Morning Star (1984) and ends…

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    …by the 10-part novel sequence Alms for Oblivion, which includes The Rich Pay Late (1964), Fielding Gray (1967), The Judas Boy (1968), Sound the Retreat (1971), and The Survivors (1976). Some characters reappear in his later seven-book series The First-Born of Egypt, which starts with Morning Star (1984) and ends…

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