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Simon Raven , (December 28, 1927 – May 12, 2001), was a novelist, journalist and dramatist. He was born in Virginia Water, Surrey, England and died in London.

table . The novels cover the period 1945 to 1973 and centre on a group of upper and upper middle class characters. They can be considered a novel sequence, if a somewhat loosely structured one.

The early novels are robust satires of the English upper set of the mid 1950s, but the later tend to a more detached and philosophical tone.

The titles in , a 22-episode adaptation for the BBC of all six Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope, first broadcast in 1974.