Berkely Mather

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Berkely Mather (born February 25, 1909 in Gloucester , † March 7, 1996 ) was a British writer.

Life

Berkely Mather is the pseudonym for the writer John Evan Weston-Davies . Before the First World War , Mather emigrated to Australia with his family . There he spent his childhood and school days and studied medicine at the University of Sydney . He later returned to Great Britain but was unable to really gain a foothold there.

His first literary attempts date from the time after the First World War. Over time, he was able to publish more and more stories or novellas in magazines such as The Bystander . In 1934 he volunteered for the British Indian Army . In 1938 he married Kay Jones († 1991) and had a daughter and two sons with her.

During the Second World War , Mather fought under the leadership of William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim in the Kingdom of Iraq . After the war ended in 1945 he went back to British India with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel (Lieutenant Colonel) . When the Mountbatten Plan came into effect on August 15, 1947 ( Indian Independence Day ) , Mather moved to the Royal Artillery and returned to Great Britain.

In 1959 Mather was retired and from then on devoted himself only to his literary work.

Berkely Mather died on March 7, 1996, ten days after his 87th birthday.

Works (selection)

stories
  • Geth Straker. Short stories . Henry Press, Hornchurch 1979, ISBN 0-86025-141-1 (reprinted from London 1962 edition).
Novels
  • The Achilles affair. A novel . Collins, London 1970.
  • The break in the line . Collins, London 1970.
  • Far Eastern . Scribners, New York 1979/82.
  1. The Pagoda Tree . 1979, ISBN 0-684-16313-6 .
  2. The midnight gun . 1981, ISBN 0-312-53210-5 .
  3. The hour of the dog . 1982, ISBN 0-312-39251-6 .
  • Genghis Khan . Henry Press, Hornchurch 1976, ISBN 0-86025-101-2 (reprinted from London 1965 edition).
    • German: Genghis Khan. Novel . Heyne, Munich 1965.
  • The road and the star . Collins, London 1965.
    • German: Gil, don't forget your sword. Novel . Zsolnay, Vienna 1968.
  • The gold of Malabar . Collins, London 1967.
    • German: The gold of Malabar. A modern adventure novel . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-548-21006-6 (reprint of the Stuttgart 1968 edition).
  • The Pass beyond Kashmir . Collins, London 1960.
    • German: On behalf of the syndicate. Novel . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-548-22044-4 (reprint of the Hamburg 1962 edition).
  • The memsahib. A novel . Collins, London 1977, ISBN 0-00-221590-X .
  • Snowline . Collins, London 1973, ISBN 0-00-221848-8 .
  • The springers. A novel . Collins, London 1968.
    • German: exchange of agents. Novel . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-548-20791-X (reprint of the Stuttgart 1969 edition).
  • The terminators . Scribners, New York 1971, ISBN 0-684-12608-7 .
  • The white dacoit . Scribners, New York 1974, ISBN 0-684-13942-1 .
  • With extreme prejudice . Collins, London 1975, ISBN 0-00-222106-3 .

Film adaptations

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Title of the US edition: The break
  2. ↑ Title of the US edition: A spy for a spy

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personal data
SURNAME Mather, Berkely
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weston-Davies, John Evan (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Gloucester
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1996