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Nicholas Mosley  (Lord Ravensdale) born 1923; Educated at Eton and Oxford; Captain in Rifle Brigade 1942-46, serving in Italy (Military Cross); twice married, five children; writer of fiction, biography, autobiography, plays, screenplays, essays, travel. There is more information on Mosley's personal history here: Beyond the Pale

FICTION:*

Spaces of the Dark, London, Hart Davis, 1951.
The Rainbearers, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1955.
Corruption, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1957; Little Brown 1958.
Meeting Place, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962.
Accident, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1965; Coward McCann 1966; also Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, Illinois
Assassins, London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1966; Coward McCann 1967; Dalkey Archive.
Impossible Object, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1968; Coward McCann 1969; Dalkey Archive..
Natalie. Natalia, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1971; Coward McCann 1971.
Catastrophe Practice (fiction, essays, and plays), London, Secker & Warburg, 1979; Dalkey Archive Press 1989.
Imago Bird, London, Secker & Warburg, 1979; Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, Illinois 1989.
Serpent, London, Secker & Warburg, 1981; also Dalkey Archive.
Judith, London, Secker & Warburg1 1986; also Dalkey Archive
Hopeful Monsters, London, Secker & Warburg, 1990; Dalkey Archive
Children of Darkness and Light, Secker & Warburg 1995; also Dalkey Archive
The Hesperides Tree, Secker & Warburg, 2001
Inventing God, Secker & Warburg, 2003
God's Hazard, Dalkey Archive, 2009

BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY:

The Life of Raymond Raynes, London, Faith Press, 1961
Julian Grenfell, his life and the times of his death, 1888-1915;  Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1976; Holt, Rinehart,
                                                                                                                                       Winston, New York 1976
The Assassination of Trotsky, London, Joseph.1972.
Rules of the Game; Sir Oswald & Ladv Cynthia Mosley 1896-1933, Vol. I, London, Secker & Warburg 1982.
Beyond the Pale; Sir Oswald & Lady Cynthia Mosley, Volume II, London, Secker & Warburg, 1983.
Efforts at Truth (autobiography), London, Secker & Warburg, 1994; Dalkey.Archive
Time at War (autobiography), Weidenfeld  & Nicholson, London, 2006.
Paradoxes of Peace, or The Presence of Infinity (autobiography), Dalkey Archive, 2009.

SCREENPLAYS / FILMS:

The Assassination of Trotsky, 1973. Film directed by Joseph Losey, lead Richard Burton, from N. Mosley screenplay.
Impossible Object, 1975. Released as "The Story of a Love Story", directed John Frankenheimer, lead Alan Bates.
Accident, 1967 screenplay by Harold Pinter, director Joseph Losey, lead Dirk Bogarde.

OTHER:

The Uses of Slime Mould, Essays of Four Decades, Dalkey Archive, 2004.
Catastrophe Practice (fiction, essays, and plays), London, Secker & Warburg, 1979; Dalkey Archive Press 1989.
Experience and Religion. A Lay Essay in Theology, United Church Press 1965.
African Switchback (travel) London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1958.

*Most fiction and biography/autobiography titles are also available from Dalkey Archive Press.
   J. Banks is not an agent for Dalkey Archive Press.


Recommended Readings:  Those with an interest in political history (or Mosley's personal history) might begin with the two volume biography of Mosley's parents, Rules of the Game and Beyond the Pale.  Inventing God is now the most talked about of Mosley's novels, and it is less demanding than Hopeful Monsters; however both are primarily novels of  uncommon ideas, and while I highly recommend both books, readers who are more used to traditional fiction might first take up Accident, Children of Darkness and Light, or The Hesperides Tree.  Impossible Object is an extraordinarily interesting novel, but it is definitely non-traditional. For this site I am preparing a few essays - "Mosley's Impossible Objects"; "Uninventing Gods" (chiefly on Inventing God); and an essay on the concept of love (mentioned long ago).

   Mosley's works might readily be compared with work of the following authors (as a start). In fiction: Dostoevsky, Aldous Huxley, Henry James, William Faulkner, G.B. Shaw, John Cowper Powys, Somerset Maugham, Henry Green, C.E. Montague, Ford Maddox Ford, Thornton Wilder, Thomas Mann, Arthur Koestler, and J.D. Salinger.


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