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Rose Tremain Books In Order

Restoration Books In Publication Order

  1. Restoration (1989)
  2. Merivel (2012)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Letter to Sister Benedicta (1978)
  2. The Cupboard (1981)
  3. Journey To The Volcano (1985)
  4. The Swimming Pool Season (1985)
  5. Sadler’s Birthday (1991)
  6. Sacred Country (1995)
  7. The Way I Found Her (1997)
  8. Music & Silence (1999)
  9. The Colour (2003)
  10. The Road Home (2007)
  11. Trespass (2010)
  12. The Gustav Sonata (2016)
  13. Islands of Mercy (2020)
  14. Lily (2021)

Chapbooks In Publication Order

  1. The Kite Flyer (1984)
  2. Knife Skills (1999)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. The Colonel’s Daughter and Other Stories (1987)
  2. Evangelista’s Fan and Other Stories (1994)
  3. Collected Short Stories (1996)
  4. The Darkness of Wallis Simpson (2005)
  5. Wildtrack (2011)
  6. The Garden Of The Villa Mollini And Other Stories (2011)
  7. The American Lover (2014)

Ballantine’s Illustrated History of the Violent Century: Politics in Action Books In Publication Order

  1. The Fight For Freedom For Women (1973)

Ballantine’s Illustrated History of World War II / the Violent Century: War Leader Books In Publication Order

  1. Patton (By:Charles Whiting) (1970)
  2. Bradley (By:Charles Whiting) (1971)
  3. Skorzeny (By:Charles Whiting) (1972)
  4. Churchill (By:David Mason) (1972)
  5. Stalin (1975)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Friendship (2018)
  2. Rosie (2018)

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Rose Tremain Books Overview

Restoration

Robert Merivel is a dissolute young medical student when an accident of fate leads him to the attention of King Charles II. Finding favour with the King, Merivel embarks on the time of his life, enthusiastically enjoying the luxury, women and wine of the vibrant royal court, until he is called upon to serve his monarch in an unusual role. However, when he fails at the one thing the King demands of him he is cast out from his new found paradise. Determined to be restored to the King’s favour, Merivel begins a journey to self knowledge that takes him to the depths of seventeenth century society.

Letter to Sister Benedicta

Fat and fifty, educated only to be a wife and mother, Ruby Constad has reached a point of crisis. Her husband, Leon, lies in a nursing home after a stroke that has left him paralyzed; her grown up children are gone. In her anguish Ruby appeals for help to a half remembered figure from her colonial Indigenous girlhood Sister Benedicta. Gradually the events leading up to Leon’s stroke are revealed and a woman emerges whose capacity to love, hope and understand are far greater than she realizes.

The Cupboard

Written by the author of ‘Restoration’, which won the the ‘Sunday Express’ Book of the Year Award in 1989 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The novel tells the story of Erica Marsh the writer, political activist and visionary, who commits suicide and a young journalist researching her life.

The Swimming Pool Season

This novel won the Angel Literary Award.

Sadler’s Birthday

A bitter sweet novel about an elderly butler and his dog. He is old and lonely and his little dog serves to remind him of his increasing age. He is master now, where once he served and owns the great house, which is empty but peopled with his memories.

Sacred Country

‘I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I’m a boy.’ Mary’s fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate, emotional yet unsentimental novel. As daring as Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Sacred Country inspires us to reconsider the essence of gender, and proposes new insights in the unraveling of that timeless malady known as the human condition. As Mary’s mother, Estelle, observes, ‘There are no whole truths, just as there is no heart of the onion. There are only the dreams of the individual mind.’ Sweeping us through three decades, from the repressive English countryside of the fifties to the swinging London of the sixties to the rhinestone tackiness of seventies America, Rose Tremain unmasks the ‘Sacred Country‘ within us all.

The Way I Found Her

This is the summer that Lewis Little, precocious thirteen year old, is spending in Paris with his beautiful mother, Alice, who is translating the latest medieval romance by Valentina Gavrilovich, the bestselling and exotic Russian migr . This is the summer that the bewitching Valentina beckons from her sofa, and Lewis discovers an exquisite new world filled with passion and intrigue, set against the alluring backdrop of Paris. But when Valentina disappears and Lewis takes it upon himself to find her, wondrous secrets suddenly turn sinister. This is the summer that Lewis, caught in a bizarre and dangerous romance, is about to face head on the perilous force that transforms children into adults.

Music & Silence

A bold new novel from the author of Restoration and The Way I Found Her. In the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish court to join King Christian IV’s royal orchestra. From the moment when he realizes that the musicians have to perform in a freezing cellar underneath the royal apartments, he understands that he’s come to a place where the opposing states of light and dark, good and evil, are waging war to the death. Designated the king’s ‘Angel’ because of his good looks, he finds himself falling in love with the young woman who is the companion of the king’s adulterous and estranged wife, Kirsten. With his loyalties fatally divided, how will Peter Claire find the path that will realize his hopes and save his soul? With a sure, alchemical touch and the narrative finesse that always turns her histories into a kind of magic, Rose Tremain has fashioned a rich, provocative historical romance as pungent as Denmark’s salty air. This is a tale of opposites: light and darkness, tenderness and violence, music and silence.

The Colour

A sweeping historical novel about love, ruin, and redemption in nineteenth century New ZealandRose Tremain’s new novel is a saga of love and greed set during the mid nineteenth century gold rush in New Zealand. Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from England, along with Joseph s mother, Lilian, in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch where they settle threatens to destroy them almost before they begin. When Joseph finds gold in the creek, he hides the discovery from both his wife and mother and becomes obsessed with the riches awaiting him deep in the earth. Abandoning his farm and family, he sets off alone for the new goldfields over the Southern Alps, a moral wilderness where many others, under the seductive dreams of The Colour, rush to their destinies. Harriet decides to pursue her own journey toward an uncertain future. But nothing has prepared her for what happens to her when she arrives at the gold diggings. Amid squalor and confusion, burning heat and icy flood, Harriet comes face to face with the true cost of desire. Beautifully written, hauntingly evocative, and by turns both moving and terrifying, The Colour is the story of a quest for the impossible, an attempt to mine the complexities of love and in the process discover what it is that makes men and women happy.

The Road Home

In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife’s death, Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to London, seeking work to support his mother and his little daughter. After a spell of homelessness, he finds a job in the kitchen of a posh restaurant, and a room in the house of an appealing Irishman who has also lost his family. Never mind that Lev must sleep in a bunk bed surrounded by plastic toys he has found a friend and shelter. However constricted his life in England remains he compensates by daydreaming of home, by having an affair with a younger restaurant worker and dodging the attentions of other women, and by trading gossip and ambitions via cell phone with his hilarious old friend Rudi who, dreaming of the wealthy West, lives largely for his battered Chevrolet. Homesickness dogs Lev, not only for nostalgic reasons, but because he doesn’t belong, body or soul, to his new country but can he really go home again? Rose Tremain’s prodigious talents as a prose writer are on full display in The Road Home, but her novel never loses sight of what is truly important in the lives we lead. 2008

Trespass

Set among the hills and gorges of southern France, Trespass is a thrilling novel about disputed territory, sibling love and devastating revenge, by the bestselling author of The Road Home, winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. In a silent valley stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic so haunted by his violent past that he’s become incapable of all meaningful action, letting his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin. Meanwhile, his sister, Audrun, alone in her modern bungalow within sight of the Mas Lunel, dreams of exacting retribution for the unspoken betrayals that have blighted her life. Into this closed C venol world comes Anthony Verey, a wealthy but disillusioned antiques dealer from London. Now in his sixties, Anthony hopes to remake his life in France, and he begins looking at properties in the region. From the moment he arrives at the Mas Lunel, a frightening and unstoppable series of consequences is set in motion. Two worlds and two cultures collide. Ancient boundaries are crossed, taboos are broken, a violent crime is committed. And all the time the C vennes hills remain, as cruel and seductive as ever, unforgettably captured in this powerful and unsettling novel, which reveals yet another dimension to Rose Tremain’s extraordinary imagination.

The Kite Flyer

A selection of modern stories by the bestselling author of ‘Restoration’. They demonstrate her wit, irony and range.

The Darkness of Wallis Simpson

A wonderful new collection of short stories, most of which are published here for the first time. Wallis Simpson, the twice divorced American woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, ended her life as the Duchess of Windsor as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone friend, foe or journalist to visit her in her Paris flat. Rose Tremain takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction. Her thesis is that Wallis, gaga and bed ridden, had forgotten the king who gave up an empire for love of her. This superb story plays with the selectiveness of memory: why does Wallis recall the seemingly unimportant, while forgetting the glory days of her notoriety? She can remember her first two husbands one a bit of a brute, the other very boring but not the world famous third one. The other stories in this magnificent collection range over a variety of themes, equally original and unexpected: an East German border guard, redundant after the Berlin Wall comes down in 1989, imagines that he might still have a purpose in life. He tries to reach Russia by bicycling across the hostile wastes of Poland. A jilted man gets his revenge. A baby grows wings. A character in an Impressionist painting escapes from his frame or does he? And there’s a Christmas story set in a seedy hotel. From the Hardcover edition.

The Garden Of The Villa Mollini And Other Stories

These short stories deal with ideas about mutability, improvement and escape into new worlds, and involve characters who constantly fail to understand themselves or anyone else. They also celebrate the small success or fragment of knowledge which can contribute to a person’s experience of life.

Skorzeny (By:Charles Whiting)

Skorzeny was one of the most daring figures of the 20th Century. His exploits included the rescue of Mussolini from his mountain prison, a brief affair with Eva Peron, a blackmail attempt on Winston Churchill and the kidnapping of the son of the wartime dictator of Hungary. Eisenhower declared him ‘The most wanted man in Europe’. Charles Whiting, who actually met Skorzeny, pieces together this truly remarkable story. returncharacterreturncharacter returncharacterreturncharacter REVIEWS returncharacterreturncharacter’Fluently hits the high points: Mussolini’s mountaintop rescue, intrigues with the Gehlen organization and OSS and CIA, postwar affair with Eva Peron.’World War II Magazine, January/ February 2011

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