The Sun Chemist comes close to science fiction and concerns the search for a lost formula that can free any country possessing it from dependence on oil. T h e first of these is set in post-war Germany and tackles the theme of N a z i s m.

Novels about modern Jewish life and politics include Making Good Again (1968) and The Sun Chemist (1976). A m o n g these are A Long Way to Shiloh (1966), set in Israel in the 1960s, and Smith's Gazelle (1971), which tells of the efforts to preserve a group of animals under threat. His later writings reveal more philosophical elements. Davidson has written many different kinds of novel in a variety of styles. T h e book was well received and the detail of its settings was remarkable, especially because Davidson had never visited CzechoslovakiaĪdventure, followed in 1962. His first, The Night of Wenceslas (1960), was an exciting story of secret agents set in what was then Czechoslovakia, at a time when relations between the countries under Soviet influence and the West were at their most dangerous. Davidson's novels have w o n him fame and popularity in many countries. He has two grown-up sons, one a designer and the other an airline pilot. In 1989, after the death of his first wife, he married again, and he now lives in north London. He has travelled all over the world and, for a time, lived in Israel. D u r i n g the Second World W a r he served in the Royal N a v y and for the next thirteen years he worked as a magazine journalist and editor. Lionel Davidson was born in the north of England in 1922.

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