Bird of Ill Omen (with signed postcard)

A volume of Simon Raven's autobiography

Author

Simon Raven, illustrated by Tim Jacques

Publisher

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1989

Printing Details

First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14cm, 220pp.

Loosely inserted is a handwritten postcard from Simon Raven in a response to a letter sent to him.

A volume of Simon Raven's autobiographical writings. 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.