Restoration

Set in 17th century England and featuring Charles II, this novel contrasts the richness and gaiety of the court with the excitement of scientific discovery and the magnetism of art and the intellect.

Literature & Fiction

ROSE TREMAIN

Literary

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Music and 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.

Contemporary

Vintage

A Perceptive novel about freedom and the will to live

The cupboard

Arena

Sadler's Birthday

Arrow Books, Ltd.

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 Cevenol 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 Cevennes 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.

Trespass

Random House Export

Kings and fools, mistresses and madmen. Tremain provides a rich, boisterous, and wonderfully entertaining novel of 17th-century England in which a former glovemaker loses the King's favor when he falls in love with his own wife!

Vintage Books

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

The Swimming Pool Season

Sceptre

Restoration (Sceptre 21's)

Sceptre 21's

Stalin (War Leader Book, No. 31)

Ballantine Books

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