For over five decades, the screenwriter, biographer, novelist and journalist Frederic Raphael has had rare access to the glittering world of the elite, both in Hollywood and in the worlds of politics,
From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37–c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal is
June 1978: Frederic Raphael is in a studio for the dubbing of his television play?Something’s Wrong, and a routine moment is captured by his wry alertness to vanities and foibles.?Ifs and Buts continu
'My notebooks are my conscience,' writes Frederic Raphael. 'They contain a writer's letters to himself.' This second volume of his notebooks covers the early 1970s: years of slump, treacheries and dec
