3 Books by Francis King
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Overview: aka Frank Cauldwell. Francis Henry King, CBE, was a British novelist, poet and short story writer. He was born in Adelboden, Switzerland, brought up in India and educated at Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford. During World War II he was a conscientious objector, and left Oxford to work on the land. After completing his degree in 1949 he worked for the British Council; he was posted around Europe, and then in Kyoto. He resigned to write full time in 1964. He was a past winner of the W. Somerset Maugham Prize for his novel The Dividing Stream (1951) and also won the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Prize. A President Emeritus of International PEN and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he was appointed an Officer (OBE) of the Order of the British Empire in 1979 and a Commander of the Order (CBE) in 1985.
Genre: Fiction | General Fiction/Classics
The Sunlight on the Garden
Francis King’s range, both geographical and emotional, was always as remarkable in his short stories as in his novels.
In this collection, there are stories that are poignantly valedictory, like the title one, with its unflinching examination of the relationships between a tough, self-willed elderly man and the young woman determined to exploit him. There are three chilling stories of the supernatural, ‘Now You See It’, set in Egypt, ‘The Pushchair’, set in Brighton, and ‘The Sitting Tenant’, set in contemporary London. In ‘Dreams’, an old man recollects an event—the most important of his whole life, he now realises—that took place during a school holiday in Belgium during the immediate prelude to World War Two. ‘Everyone is Nobody’ is a devastating study of bereavement. Without exception, all the stories show King’s characteristic combination of subtlety and force of emotion.
Voices in an Empty Room
Was it simply, in the coroner’s words, a stupid and tragic accident?
Sybil Crawfurd would never have expected her brother, Hugo, to die like that, so suddenly, in a fall from the balcony of a Brighton hotel . . .
The handsome, intelligent headmistress of a girls’ school on the south coast, Sybil is not alone in desperately wanting ‘but two hours converse with the dead’. Lavinia Trent, the well-known actress, and Bridget Nagel, whose journalist husband was killed in the Falklands, are equally ready to enter the bizarre, comic, unnerving world of paranormal experiment . . .
The Firewalkers
First published in 1956, under the pseudonym "Frank Cauldwell", this accomplished comedy of manners is set among British expatriates and exotic locals in a Greece still undiscovered by tourism. Written with an infectious enjoyment and good humour, the story of the flamboyant and temperamental Colonel Theodore Grecos and his devotion to the completely unsophisticated Gotz Joachim provides Francis King with ample scope for his mastery of ironic observation. In the Introduction to this edition, the author explains how The Firewalkers came to be written, born out of "the exhilarating sense of liberation that came to me on first setting foot in Athens".
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