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Graham Greene (1904-91) wrote of Pinkie the mobster, Harry Lime, and the whisky priest, but his own life was the strangest of all his stories. Surviving a tortured adolescence, he sought distraction in Russian Roulette, women, espionage, jungle treks, war reporting, and opium. A Catholic conv...

Graham Greene (1904-91) wrote of Pinkie the mobster, Harry Lime, and the whisky priest, but his own life was the strangest of all his stories. Surviving a tortured adolescence, he sought distraction in Russian Roulette, women, espionage, jungle treks, war reporting, and opium. A Catholic conv...

This title examines Graham Greene travels through Haiti and Central America - a part of his life story that has never been told. It includes previously unseen letters and photographs of him on his travels.

Through letters, diaries, and interviews this final volume takes Greene from China to the real peril of Cuba, the rigours of the Belgian Congo, Haiti and other places up to the time of his quiet death at 86 in Switzerland.

Coming from some of the most intriguing locations around the world, this volume takes the reader to the settings described in Graham Greene's books.

Through intensive detective work, Bill West has uncovered new material (letters, galleys of novels, FBI documents) which explain aspects of Graham Greene's life which have until now eluded biographers.

This is a fresh assessment of Graham Greene's achievement as a writer who articulated the conflicting voices within the 20th century culture.

The second of Norman Sherry's three-volume biography, encompassing the most creative period of Greene's life in terms of novels and films. It also saw the disintegration of his marriage, and his enrolment as a secret agent. In the 1950s Greene was increasingly drawn to the world's trouble spots.

One of the great novelist of his time, Graham Greene guarded his privacy, until he allowed Norman Sherry complete access to letters and diaries, and gave consent to this full and frank biography in three parts - the first taking Greene's life up to the beginning of the Second World War.

Anthony Farrant is back home after lying and cheating his way through one job after another in the Far East. When his adoring sister Kate sets him up with a role in Stockholm as bodyguard to her boss and lover, megalomaniac financier Krogh, Anthony seems set on a path to redemption. But when he r...

Raven is a ruthless assassin, a hired killer, whose cold-blooded murder of the Minister for War will have violent repercussions across Europe. As the nation prepares for battle, Raven goes on the run, hunted by the police and in search of the man who paid him in stolen banknotes, eventually unear...

Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at the public school where his father was headmaster. In A Sort of Life Greene recalls schooldays and Oxford, adolescent encounters with psychoanalysis and Russian roulett...

In 1938 Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to discover the state of the country and its people in the aftermath of the brutal anti-clerical purges of President Calles. His journey took him through the tropical states of Chiapas and Tabasco, where all the churches had been destroye...

Brought to you by Penguin.In a prison in Occupied France during the Second World War, the order is given that every tenth inmate is to be executed. Louis Chavel, a rich lawyer, draws the short straw and barters everything he owns to exchange places with another man and survive. Destitute but free...

Brought to you by Penguin.Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American and Jones the confidence man - these are the 'comedians' of Graham Greene's titl...

Brought to you by Penguin.The Third Man is Graham Greene's brilliant recreation of post-war Vienna, a 'smashed dreary city' occupied by the four Allied powers. Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious cir...

Brought to you by Penguin.For Arthur Rowe the charity fête was a trip back to childhood, to innocence, a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz, to forget twenty years of his past and a murder. Then he guesses the weight of the cake, and from that moment on he's a hunted man, the target...