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Graham Greene was born in Hertfordshire in 1904. While at Balliol College, Oxford he published his first book of verse. He continued to write throughout his lifetime, and served with the Secret Intelligence Service during the Second World War. He was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. Among the many people who paid tribute to him on his death was Kingsley Amis: 'He will be missed all over the world. Until today, he was our greatest living novelist.' He died in 1991.
Singularly beautiful and moving -- Evelyn Waugh One of the most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language * William Faulkner * In a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man's consciousness and anxiety -- William Golding Devastating study of the collision of different kinds of faith, betrayal and commitment * The Times * Greene's novel of illicit love captures perfectly the atmosphere of rainy wartime London - try to read this in one sitting if you can * Express *
