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Books by Frederic Raphael
  | | Going Up To Cambridge and Beyond - A Writer's Memoir by Frederic Raphael Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2015 by Robson Press ISBN-13: 978-1-84954-870-0, ISBN: 1-84954-870-6 "The manager's name was Love. His first-floor flat was diagonally across the private road and the rose beds from ours. Each weekday morning, at eight fifteen, he hooked open his lattice-paned bedroom window and did exercises, in a white sleeveless vest and white drawers. So begins the extraordinary life story of one of Britain's most celebrated writers, Frederic Raphael. Going Up is a journey from Chicago to Putney, to Charterhouse, on ..." |
 | | Anti-Semitism (Provocations) by Frederic Raphael Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2015 by Biteback Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-84954-890-8, ISBN: 1-84954-890-0 "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 long, but how this religion continues to survive and flourish." |
 | | A Jew Among Romans(1st Edition) The Life and Legacy of Flavius Josephus by Frederic Raphael Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2013 by Pantheon Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-37816-3, ISBN: 0-307-37816-0 "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 a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gentile world. Joseph ben Mattathias’s transformation into Titus Flavius Josephus, historian to the Roman emperor Vespasian, is a gripping and dramatic story. His life, in the hands of Frederic Raphael ..." |
 | | There and Then Personal Terms 6 by Frederic Raphael Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2013 by Carcanet Press Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-84777-140-7, ISBN: 1-84777-140-8 "Compulsively readable, wise, and mischievous by turns, this sixth volume from the collection of Frederic Raphael’s personal journals chronicles his eventful life in the seemingly glamorous worlds of 1980s Hollywood and literary London. Included are his encounters with Mary Whitehouse and Meryl Streep, vital memories of Dirk Bogarde, and warm reflections on Peter Sellers. Postwar British values and Byron’s sex life are subjected to scrut ..." |
 | | Fame and Fortune(1st Edition) by Frederic Raphael Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Jr Books ISBN-13: 978-1-906217-34-1, ISBN: 1-906217-34-3 "Fame and Fortune is the long-awaited continuation of Frederic Raphael’s best-selling novel The Glittering Prizes, which followed a generation of Cambridge graduates into the academic and media world of the 1960s. In this new book, Successful novelist and screenwriter Adam Morris, now in his late forties, remains the central character, but many of his contemporaries continue to feature in his life. These include the ambitious and endless ..." |
 | | The Serpent Son(1st Edition) Aeschylus: Oresteia (Translations from Greek and Roman Authors) by Frederic Raphael, Kenneth Mcleish Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1979 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-29344-0, ISBN: 0-521-29344-8 "The Oresteia: The Serpent Son" |
 | | Fame and Fortune by Frederic Raphael Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2008 by Jr Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-906217-57-0, ISBN: 1-906217-57-2 "With a rich cast, a fast-moving story line, and dialogue that displays all the wit and panache for which Frederic Raphael is famous, Fame and Fortune - recently dramatised on BBC Radio 4 - is a powerful sequel to his bestselling classic, The Glittering Prizes. Success as a novelist and Hollywood screenwriter has brought fame and its pleasures to Adam Morris, whose public cynicism continues to mask his private anguish. He still moves war ..." |
 | | A Spoilt Boy(1st Edition) A Memoir of a Childhood by Frederic Raphael Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2003 by Orion (An Imprint Of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) ISBN-13: 978-0-7528-5584-4, ISBN: 0-7528-5584-0 "Frederic Raphael shared his days at Cambridge with us in his bestselling novel Glittering Prizes, now, in this evocative, painfully honest memoir he tells us about the first eighteen years of his life. His early years were spent in America and it was not until he was six that he and his parents sailed for England. Evacuated to Devon in the war, Freddie's prep school days were happy. His thirst for learning and easy intellect made him ..." |
 | | Eyes Wide Open(1st Edition) A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick by Frederic Raphael Paperback, 190 Pages, Published 1999 by Ballantine Books ISBN-13: 978-0-345-43776-1, ISBN: 0-345-43776-4 "We've all heard the rumors.He was a hermit. He refused to fly and wouldn't be driven at more than thirty miles an hour. He avoided having his picture taken and was terrified of being assassinated. As a filmmaker, he was obsessed with perfection. He insisted on total control of every facet of the process. Simple scenes required one hundred takes. No wonder he made only six movies in the past thirty-five years. But what was he really like ..." |
 | | Eyes Wide Shut(1st Edition) A Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Schnitzler, Frederic Raphael Paperback, 281 Pages, Published 1999 by Warner Books ISBN-13: 978-0-446-67632-8, ISBN: 0-446-67632-2 "Dream Story...is a sensual tale that explores the subconscious, forbidden desires of a husband and wife, in both their dreams and fantasies and their increasingly daring sexual adventures. Ahead of its time and marked by the deep influence of the author's contemporary, Sigmund Freud, Schnitzler's novel has become a modernist classic. In this volume the original story's themes of depravity and the elusive ambiguity of dream and reality c ..." |
 | | The Limits of Love by Frederic Raphael Paperback, 560 Pages, Published 1989 by Fontana Press ISBN-13: 978-0-00-617595-7, ISBN: 0-00-617595-3 |
 | | Lindmann by Frederic Raphael Paperback, Published 1989 by Fontana Press 26/10/1989 ISBN-13: 978-0-00-617596-4, ISBN: 0-00-617596-1 |
 | | The Glittering Prizes by Frederic Raphael Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1979 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-004335-8, ISBN: 0-14-004335-7 "Adam Morris, Alan Parks, Mike Clode, Anna Cunnginham, Barbara Ransome and the others leave Cambridge University to discover varying degrees of satisfaction, success and material comfort. But over all of them lies the common memory of those heady, golden days spent in unravelling the knots of friendship, in exploratory sex and in Badinage, that none of them will ever quite forget.A compelling story, "The Glittering Prizes" reflects the c ..." |
 | | A Thousand Kisses by Frederic Raphael Hardcover, Published 2019 by Holland House Books ISBN-13: 978-1-910688-85-4, ISBN: 1-910688-85-1 "'I hate and I love. You may wonder why I do that.' In an extraordinary tour-de-force Frederic Raphael, the acclaimed novelist, screenwriter and critic, imagines the life of that most passionate and outspoken Roman poet, Gaius Valerius Catullus, the ill-used young lover of Lesbia, his married mistress, the wife of a powerful consul. Catullus meets, charms and clashes with Julius Caesar, Cicero, Publius Clodius and other contenders for fa ..." |
 | | Against the Stream (Personal Terms) by Frederic Raphael Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2018 by Carcanet Press Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-1-78410-436-8, ISBN: 1-78410-436-1 "Against the Stream is the latest volume of Frederic Raphael’s acclaimed memoirs Personal Terms, an unrivalled parade of the author’s eventful and provocative life, opinions and times drawn from his living and breathing cahiers and journals. "Shrewd, funny, gossipy and elegantly written," as Jeremy Lewis said in the Literary Review, these writings are as unguarded, sardonic and tactless as they are candid. This seventh volume relives Mar ..." |
 | | Antiquity Matters by Frederic Raphael Hardcover, 376 Pages, Published 2017 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-21537-3, ISBN: 0-300-21537-1 "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 life during which Frederic Raphael has returned again and again to the literature and landscape of the ancient world. In his new book, Raphael deploys his renowned wit and erudition to give us a vivid mosaic of the complexities and contradic ..." |
 | | Private Views by Frederic Raphael Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 2015 by Peter Owen Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-7206-1853-2, ISBN: 0-7206-1853-3 "Charlie Marsden has to come to terms with a woman whom he cannot help but love unconditionally but who can never quite be his in this portrait of a vanishing generation Who is Katya Lowell and what is the secret of her life? A beautiful, seemingly cool painter of unnerving images in 1970s London, she comes to the attention of Charlie Marsden, an aristocrat who works at an old merchant bank in the City. Why does this elegant, enigmatic ..." |
 | | My Mulligan to Golf(1st Edition) The Hilarious Story of Shell's Wonderful World of Golf & the Beginning of the Senior Tour by Frederic Raphael, Don Wade, Martin Davis, Fred Rafeal Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2011 by The American Golfer ISBN-13: 978-1-888531-15-2, ISBN: 1-888531-15-0 "Fred Raphael was the producer and director of the Shell’s Wonderful World of Golf Series from 1960 to 1970, and this book reveals his experiences in that role. The book also tells the story of how the Senior Tour, now called the Champions Tour, was born with Fred’s creation of the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf Tournament." |
 | | Satyrica(Updated) by Petronius Arbiter Staff, Frederic Raphael Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2009 by Fyfield Books ISBN-13: 978-1-85754-783-2, ISBN: 1-85754-783-7 "Petronius lived during the reign of the notorious emperor Nero, a writer in a decadent empire, and in Frederic Raphael he finds a translator who brings his words vividly alive. Petronius' Rome is not the noble civilisation of classical ideals; his Romans are lascivious, amoral and stylish, inhabiting a louche world of ostentatious, nouveau riche extravagance and flirtation with the seductive menace of the Roman underclass. In Raphael's ..." |
 | | The Glittering Prizes(1st Edition) by Frederic Raphael Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2007 by Jr Books ISBN-13: 978-1-906217-33-4, ISBN: 1-906217-33-5 "Adam Morris, Alan Parks, Mike Clode, Anna Cunnginham, Barbara Ransome and the others leave Cambridge University to discover varying degrees of satisfaction, success and material comfort. But over all of them lies the common memory of those heady, golden days spent in unravelling the knots of friendship, in exploratory sex and in Badinage, that none of them will ever quite forget.A compelling story, "The Glittering Prizes" reflects the c ..." |
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