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Hone, Joseph was born on February 25, 1937 in London. Son of Nathaniel and Bridget (Anthony) Hone.
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New Year's Day, 1906. A family celebrates, skating on the ice of a vast lake, far north in Russia. Cousins of the Romanov Tsars, this is the Rumovsky family - Prince Pyotr, his wife Princess Sofia, their son Ivan and twins Yelena and Alexander, and their young Irish governess, Miss Harriet. With them is the patriarch of the family, old Prince Mikhail, a strange, towering figure, a man from another century, with his fabulous Boyars' court at the castle, a Tamburlaine of the snows...Behind the Rumovsky family and their mediaeval island castle lie 300 years of autocratic but peaceful rule. Ahead of them, the old Prince expects the same for his descendants. It is not to be. Firesong is the story of the Rumovskies - their lives, deaths and hazardous escapes in the nightmarish new Russia that soon engulfs them: a land stricken by famine, pestilence, war and death. A story both intimate and epic, reminiscent of Dr Zhivago, this is a dramatic saga of men and women who fight for their destiny, in love and peace, against all the odds of war and dissolution.
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(Continues the story begun in "Summer Hill", a novel about...)
Continues the story begun in "Summer Hill", a novel about a great Irish house, Summer Hill, and three generations of women who live in it between the 1890s and World War II. The author also wrote "The Private Sector" and "Children of the Country".
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(It is an idyllic setting: the forest sweeping down to the...)
It is an idyllic setting: the forest sweeping down to the valley, sunlight on the loch, the heather loud with bees: but one hive stands dismantled and a man has vanished. That man is Lindsay Phillips, head of a section of the Secret Service. Peter Marlow, restless in his Cotswolds retreat, thinks he has left the world of espionage behind him, but sudden unexpected pressures lead him to take up the search for Phillips. He is short of money; colleagues from the shadows of the past are persuasive; above all, he owes an intricate debt to the family, to recollections of his own childhood. Marlow is instantly caught up in a web of violence and intrigue that embraces Downing Street and anonymous hired killers, runs from domestic deceit to political kidnapping. As the search leads unpredictably from Scotland to Oxford, from Belgium to Eastern Europe, Marlow finds that his journey signposted by death and by forgotten betrayals, is a voyage into his own past, a voyage into the painful recesses of public, private and clandestine treason. 'This is the best thriller I've found in years, perhaps the best I remember; too serious and rich for the word thriller and what it implies though sticking closely to the thriller genre: a novel about the mysteriousness of human beings rather than the mysteries of intelligence and diplomacy. The weaving of the story is so close, so tight, that no image, no hint is ever wasted: everything links up with something else ...Above all there's a sense of densely packed layers of memory and interconnected experience: in families, in friendships, among colleagues, lovers, even spouses; and of secrets even among the closest, the impossibility of knowing the truth - with ultimate, total exactness - about anyone' - Isabel Quigly, "Financial Times". 'A densely-textured, subtle and allusive novel; a pleasure to read' - "Times Literary Supplement". 'A galloping plot ...thoroughly British in tone and outlook.' Guardian 'Mr Hone writes Len Deighton into the ground ...goes roaring confidently up to the front line' - "New Statesman".
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Hone, Joseph was born on February 25, 1937 in London. Son of Nathaniel and Bridget (Anthony) Hone.
Graduated from the high school, Dublin, 1954.
Radio producer, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1963-1966; staff office public information, radio and television producer, United Nations Secratariat, New York City, 1967-1968; novelist, broadcasting official, British Broadcasting Corporation, since 1968.
(Continues the story begun in "Summer Hill", a novel about...)
(It is an idyllic setting: the forest sweeping down to the...)
(A novel about a great Irish house, Summer Hill, and three...)
(New Year's Day, 1906. A family celebrates, skating on the...)
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Member of Upton House Cricket (Banbury, England).
Married Jacqueline Yeend, March 5, 1964. Children: Lucy, William.