The fourth volume of Frederic Raphael's notebooks, Ticks and Crosses covers the years 1976 to 1978 with the sharp wit and provocative intelligence for which the earlier books were acclaimed. Raphael o
The first volume of Frederic Raphael's journals, Personal Terms, was greeted in the TLS as 'a minor masterpiece'. With the publication of Cuts and Bruises, the third volume, the sequence unfolds into
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,
A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering Prizes This book is the culmination of more than sixty years of a writing l
In this extraordinary, powerful polemic, celebrated writer Frederic Raphael looks back through two millennia of persecution, explaining not only exactly why it is people have been killing Jews for so
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
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
