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Newby, Percy Howard was born on June 25, 1918 in Crowborough, England. Son of Percy and Isobel Clutsam (Bryant) Newby.
(On arrival as a medical orderly at Suez in 1941, Faulkes ...)
On arrival as a medical orderly at Suez in 1941, Faulkes is surprised and alarmed to be greeted by a ghost from his family's past. Grinning and dropping enigmatic hints, there is Uncle Raymond, slyly referring to Faulkes' Aunt. This turns out to be Nadia, the beautiful Copt installed in Cairo, who refuses to answer Raymond's letters, however pleading. Faulkes is enlisted to track her down, but it is an operation so bizarre and bungled, that it will leave all their lives marked. In a deft, stylish and intelligent comedy, Newby evokes all the mystery, farce and splendour of the wartime Egypt that he knew so well.
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( Honored by Christian and Muslim alike, celebrated by Da...)
Honored by Christian and Muslim alike, celebrated by Dante and Sir Walter Scott, Saladin reigns as the most famous of all Islamic heroes. As sultan of Egypt, Syria, Yemen, and Palestine, he achieved great success in the wars against the crusaders--particularly with his capture of Jerusalem. And, his disciplined army stood in marked contrast to the Christians, who slaughtered indiscriminately following their victory in 1099. This thoroughly researched biography shows Saladin as a skillful diplomat, a generous but firm ruler, and a deeply religious man...who tragically died without enough money to pay for his own grave.
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(The setting of The Picnic at Sakkara, a delightful comedy...)
The setting of The Picnic at Sakkara, a delightful comedy, is Egypt in the days of King Farouk. Edgar Perry, a lecturer at Cairo University, finds himself in a world on all sides less well-ordered than himself. His own wife deceives herself, it not him; his illustrious private pupil, Tureiya Pasha, encourages him to believe in something like a mirage; his students, in the intervals of hearing from him about the beauties of George Eliot, take part in violent political demonstrations; and one of them, Muawiya Khaslat, an attractive rogue hardly able to reconcile his devotion to Perry with his membership of the Moslem Brotherhood, almost turns the picnic into a tragedy. Newby's Egypt is more than credible and wholly entertaining. 'The light but intelligent novel is always a rare and attractive bird. Such a novel is The Picnic at Sakkara - a book that combines gaiety and shrewdness, a sense of fun and a sense of drama, that treats an important and absorbing subject in a light-hearted and light-handed way.' Daily Mail 'His most successful novel.' Times
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Newby, Percy Howard was born on June 25, 1918 in Crowborough, England. Son of Percy and Isobel Clutsam (Bryant) Newby.
Graduate, St. Paul's College, Cheltenham, England, 1938.
Lecturer Cairo University, 1942-1946. Freelance writer, 1946-1949. With British Broadcasting Corporation, 1949-1997, managing director British Broadcasting Corporation Radio, 1976-1978.
Chairman English Stage Company, 1978-1985.
( Honored by Christian and Muslim alike, celebrated by Da...)
(On arrival as a medical orderly at Suez in 1941, Faulkes ...)
(The setting of The Picnic at Sakkara, a delightful comedy...)
(Later novel by the first winner if the Booker Prize in 1969.)
(London published Fiction)
(Book by Newby, P. H.)
(260 pp., profusely illus. in color, large 4to,)
British Broadcasting Corporation Talks Department 1949-1958, Controller Third Programme 70, Controller Radio Three 1970-1971.
Married Joan Thompson, July 12, 1945. Children: Sarah Jane Newby Schenck, Katharine Charlotte Newby Sinclair.