Background
She was born in Lincolnshire, the daughter of Sir Arthur and Winifred Mary Colegate, and was educated at Runton Hill School in Norfolk.
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this penguin edition contains the first three novels by british novelist, isabel colegate. "the blackmailer" (1958), dealt with the decline of the english aristocracy & the disintegration of class structures in the aftermath of the first world war, a theme to which she was to return in subsequent works, including "a man of power" (1960) & "the great occasion" (1962). neither of the latter two of these novels is in print in any other format. colgate went on to publish "the shooting party" in 1980 to international claim. it was made into the classic film of the same name in 1985 starring james mason, john gielgud & edward fox.
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(From inside flap of dust jacket: "Orlando King was an ill...)
From inside flap of dust jacket: "Orlando King was an illegitimate child who had been brought up by a recluse in the British Channel Islands. In 1931 he came to London, which at that time was having bread riots and hunger marches, and quickly and effortlessly found an important highly paid position in industry a wife ... and finally a seat in Parliment. Then the war came, and with it a revelation about the secret of Orlando's birth which put an end to all he had so easily conquered...."
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This story is set in the architectural splendour of 19th century Bath. As the town prepares for Queen Victoria's summer vist, rivalry and quarelling and a central moral dilemma arise, heightening the contrast between the fading genteel life and the rowdy slums of Bath.
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(It is 1913 - just prior to England's entry into World War...)
It is 1913 - just prior to England's entry into World War I - and Edwardian England is about to vanish into history. A group of men and women gather at Sir Randolph Nettleby's estate for a shooting party. Opulent, adulterous, moving assuredly through the rituals of eating and slaughter, they are a dazzlingly obtuse and brilliantly decorative finale of an era.
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('As a novelist of English manners, Isabel Colegate has no...)
'As a novelist of English manners, Isabel Colegate has no rival.' - The Times 'Colegate's prose is flowing and unpretentious. She tells an excellent tale.' - Daily Telegraph 'Colegate's strengths - neat psychological details, coolly literate narration, dry humor - are on ample display throughout.' Kirkus Reviews Anthony Lane is dead, a casualty of the Korean War, and at home in England he is praised a hero. But Baldwin Reeves, who served with him, knows the truth: Lane, a traitor and a coward, was executed ignominiously by his own men. Envious of the wealth and social position Lane possessed, Reeves decides to put his knowledge to good use by blackmailing his widow Judith. Anxious to prevent a scandal and protect Lane's elderly mother from the disclosure of his disgrace, Judith seems to be wholly into Reeves's power. But when the blackmailer finds himself falling in love with his victim, the balance of power shifts, and the stage is set for an ironic and surprising conclusion. Darkly humorous, with a wonderfully offbeat cast of characters and featuring the distinguished style for which she is known, The Blackmailer (1958) was the first novel by Isabel Colegate, author of the modern classic The Shooting Party. This edition, the first in 30 years, includes a new foreword by the author.
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From Lao-tse and the Buddha, St. Anthony and the early Celtic hermits, through Rousseau, Thoreau, Ruskin, and up to the present day, certain gifted persons have shown a vocation for living alone and apart, finding in simplicity and attention to nature a spiritual space to be explored and rejoiced in. Others, retreating from the world in scorn or cut off from it by scandal, have found that solitude is Hell, a pit of melancholy and morbid fancy. In this, her first work of nonfiction, novelist Isabel Colegate gives us the lives of the solitaries — male and female, medieval and modern, divinely inspired and patently fraudulent. But this is no mere gallery of saints and sinners, poets and misanthropes. It is also a reevaluation of solitude for our times, and a reminder that it is in solitude that the soul meets itself, refreshes itself, and from there goes out to join the communal dance.
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This novel underlines the theme of loyalty, to one's class, to one's country, to one's ideals and to the truth. Catherine Hillary is commissioned to write the biography of a dead politician and in the process she gains a perspective on her own life, but at some cost. Iasabel Colegate is author of "The Shooting Party". "Deceits of Time" will be one of Hamish Hamilton's submissions for the Booker Prize.
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She was born in Lincolnshire, the daughter of Sir Arthur and Winifred Mary Colegate, and was educated at Runton Hill School in Norfolk.
She lived at Midford Castle near Bath, England, until 2007. Her novel The Shooting Party (1980) was adapted as an award-winning film of the same name, released in 1985 by Castle Hill Productions Incorporated. In 2010, it was adapted for radio by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
(From inside flap of dust jacket: "Orlando King was an ill...)
(It is 1913 - just prior to England's entry into World War...)
(This novel underlines the theme of loyalty, to one's clas...)
(The story of a family set amidst the selfish gaiety and s...)
(this penguin edition contains the first three novels by b...)
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( From Lao-tse and the Buddha, St. Anthony and the early ...)