A humorous, anarchic and near tragic novel about Robert Stevens and his friends who are in their last term at Oxford. In the weeks before the final examinations personal entanglements, Jacobean tragedy and a background of international confrontation come together in an unsettling climax. The author won the 1981 Royal Society of Literature Award for "A Breed of Heroes". In 1983 he was chosen as one of the Best of Young British Novelists.
- ISBN10 0091681804
- ISBN13 9780091681807
- Publish Date May 1987
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 October 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Imprint Hutchinson
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English