2 Novels by J.B. Priestley
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Overview: John Boynton Priestley, the son of a schoolmaster, was born in Bradford in September 1894, and after schooling he worked for a time in the local wool trade. Following the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, Priestley joined the British Army, and was sent to France –in 1915 taking part in the Battle of Loos. After being wounded in 1917 Priestley returned to England for six months; then, after going back to the Western Front he suffered the consequences of a German gas attack, and, treated at Rouen, he was declared unfit for active service and was transferred to the Entertainers Section of the British Army.
When Priestley left the army he studied at Cambridge University, where he completed a degree in Modern History and Political Science.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Saturn Over the Water
Tim Bedford, a young English painter, has made a promise to his dying cousin to find her husband, a scientist who vanished while working on a top-secret project in South America. The only clue is a scrap of paper with a scribbled list of words and a curious symbol resembling a figure 8 over a wavy line. As he follows the trail from Cambridge to New York to the sultry streets of Lima, the remote Peruvian desert, and the volcanic coast of southern Chile, Bedford finds himself facing danger at every turn. The action and suspense build towards a thrilling climax in the mountains of Australia, where Bedford will uncover the truth behind a sinister conspiracy that threatens the entire world … but can it be stopped, or is it already too late?
One of the most popular and critically successful of J.B. Priestley’s later novels, Saturn Over the Water is a fast-paced and clever mix of adventure, mystery, and science fiction that remains, as David Collard writes in the new introduction to this edition, ‘an entertaining and marvellously eccentric jeu d’esprit’.
The Magicians
This may be regarded as a tale, strange, humourous, dramatic, or as a sharply satirical fable of contemporary life. In both capacities it shows its author’s breadth of knowledge and interests, his humanity and insight. It is J. B. Priestley, mocking but wise, at his best.
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