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Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain
Category: Fiction
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers Marianne Clifford, 15, only child of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, Lal, falls helplessly and absolutely for Simon Hurst, 18, whose cleverness and physical beauty suggest that he will go forwa ...Show more
Colonel's Daughter & Other Stories by Rose Tremain
Category: Fiction
At the moment that Colonel Browne is preparing for his later afternoon dip, his daughter Charlotte, carrying a suitcase, is getting out of her car, preparing to rob the ancestral home. It is not just another day: It is the culmination of hundreds of days, hundreds of disappointments and misunderstanding ...Show more
Friendship: Vintage Minis by Rose Tremain
Category: Accessories | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Selected from the novels of Rose Tremain. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human
Iron Robin by Rose Tremain
Category: Picture Books
From an acclaimed voice in literature comes a children's story steeped in magicFrom an acclaimed voice in literature comes a children's story steeped in magic...Oliver loves birds - watching them soar into the sky and wishing that just sometimes they would stay close.So when he discovers a robin made of ...Show more
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
Category: Fiction
'A hell of a read... more absorbing than most fiction I've read this year' Sunday Times She was 'The Angel of the Baths', the one woman whose touch everybody yearned for. Yet she would do more. She was certain of that. In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an extraordinary young woman renowned for he ...Show more
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
Category: Fiction
She was 'The Angel of the Baths', the one woman whose touch everybody yearned for. Yet she would do more. She was certain of that. In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an extraordinary young woman renowned for her nursing skills is convinced that some other destiny will one day show itself to her. Bu ...Show more
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
Category: Fiction
An audacious novel about destiny and desire from the incomparable Rose TremainAll must gamble with their fate. But not all can win...In the city of Bath, in the year 1865 Jane Adeane, renowned for her restorative skills, is convinced that some other destiny will one day show itself to her. But when she ...Show more
Lily by Rose Tremain
Category: Fiction
From fated novelist Rose Tremain a gripping Victorian melodrama about an orphan girl and a vengeful murderNobody knows yet that she is a murderer... Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's night in 1850, baby Lily Mortimer is saved by a young police constable and taken to the London Foundli ...Show more
Lily: A Tale of Revenge by Rose Tremain
Category: Fiction
From fated novelist Rose Tremain a gripping Victorian melodrama about an orphan girl and a vengeful murder Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer ... Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's night in 1850, baby Lily Mortimer is saved by a young police constable and taken to the London Found ...Show more
Merivel: A Man of His Time by Rose Tremain
Category: Fiction
From the author of The Gustav SonataThe wonderful new historical novel set in seventeenth-century England from Rose Tremain, author of Restoration (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Road Home (winner of the Orange Prize) and Trespass (a Richard & Judy pick). Merivel has been called 'wonderfully ...Show more
Merivel: A Man of His Time by Rose Tremain
Category: Fiction
Get ready to laugh, prepare to weep - Robert Merivel is back in Rose Tremain's magical sequel to Restoration. Robert Merivel, courtier to Charles II is no longer a young man -- but off he goes to France in search of the Sun King and to Switzerland in pursuit of a handsome woman. Versailles -- all glitt ...Show more
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain
Category: Fiction
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 realises that the musicians perform in a freezing cellar underneath the royal apartments, Peter Claire understands that he's come to a place wher ...Show more