Nicholas Mosley

1923–2017

English novelist and biographer, the eldest son of Sir Oswald Mosley. Educated at Eton and Balliol, Oxford, he served with the Rifle Brigade in Italy and won the Military Cross in 1945. After farming in Wales he took up writing; his first novel, Spaces of the Dark, appeared in 1951, and Accident (1965) was filmed by Joseph Losey. He became Baron Ravensdale in 1966 but never used the title. Beyond the Pale examined his father’s life, and Hopeful Monsters won the Whitbread Book of the Year. He died in February 2017. Impossible Object was shortlisted for the 1969 Booker Prize.

Timeline of Nicholas Mosley’s life

Works

• Impossible Object (1968)

Prizes

• Impossible Object — The Booker Prize 1969: Shortlist