Balkan Trilogy Books In Publication Order
- The Great Fortune (1960)
- The Spoilt City (1962)
- Friends and Heroes (1965)
Levant Trilogy Books In Publication Order
- The Danger Tree (1977)
- The Battle Lost and Won (1978)
- The Sum of Things (1981)
Oliva Manning Short Story Collections In Publication Order
- A Romantic Hero (1967)
Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order
- Extraordinary Cats (1967)
Standalone Novels In Publication Order
- The Wind Changes (1937)
- The Remarkable Expedition (1947)
- Artist Among The Missing (1949)
- The Dreaming Shore (1950)
- School for Love (1951)
- A Different Face (1953)
- The Doves of Venus (1955)
- The Play Room (1969)
- The Rain Forest (1974)
Anthologies In Publication Order
- Penguin Modern Stories 12 (1972)
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Levant Trilogy Book Covers
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Olivia Manning Books Overview
The Great Fortune
In The Great Fortune, the first installation in the six volume Fortunes of War, series, Guy and Harriet Pringle marry after a brief courtship. Still getting to know each other, they arrive in Bucharest, where Guy works as a lecturer for the British Council and builds an eclectic network of friends and acquaintances. These charismatic contacts include his work colleague Clarence, his boss Lord Inchcape, the eccentric Prince Yakimov, and Sophie, a local Romanian beauty. While he knows and loves everyone, she knows no one and starts to wonder whether she really knows Guy either. Set in Romania under the gathering storm of the second World War, The Great Fortune is action packed, romantic, and fascinating.
Friends and Heroes
Audio Cassette, Chivers Audio Books
School for Love
Jerusalem in 1945 is a city in flux: refugees from the war in Europe fill its streets and caf s, the British colonial mandate is coming to an end, and tensions are on the rise between the Arab and Jewish populations. Felix Latimer, a recently orphaned teenager, arrives in Jerusalem from Baghdad, biding time until he can secure passage to England. Adrift and deeply lonely, Felix has no choice but to room in a boardinghouse run by Miss Bohun, a relative he has never met. Miss Bohun is a holy terror, a cheerless miser who proclaims the ideals of a fundamentalist group known as the Ever Readies joy, charity, and love even as she makes life a misery for her boarders. Then Mrs. Ellis, a fascinating young widow, moves into the house and disrupts its dreary routine for good. Olivia Manning’s great subject is the lives of ordinary people caught up in history. Here, as in her panoramic depiction of World War II, The Balkan Trilogy, she offers a rich and psychologically nuanced story of life on the precipice, and she tells it with equal parts compassion, skepticism, and humor.
The Doves of Venus
A story of loving and ageing.
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