Rose Tremain, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-12605-6
Readers familiar with British writer Tremain's magisterial historical novel, Restoration, or her psychologically acute study of madness, Music & Silence, will not be surprised at the accuracy of historical detail in this elegant and dramatic
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Rose Tremain, Author . Little, Brown $24.99 (417p) ISBN 978-0-316-00261-5
Tremain (Restoration
) turns in a low-key but emotionally potent look at the melancholia of migration for her 14th book. Olev, a 42-year-old widower from an unnamed former east bloc republic, is taking a bus to London, where he imagines every man...
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Rose Tremain, Norton, $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-393-07956-2
Two pairs of siblings and their twisted pasts converge in this gripping, dark novel from Orange Prize–winner Tremain (The Road Home). In the southern French Cévennes region, Audrun lives a peaceful if bitter life in a small bungalow a stone's throw...
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Rose Tremain, Author Atheneum Books $21 (323p) ISBN 978-0-689-12170-8
Highly regarded in England, Tremain has yet to win her discriminating audience here, although her seventh work of fiction, Restoration , brought her fine reviews on these shores. Her latest novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is a deceptively...
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Rose Tremain, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (358p) ISBN 978-0-374-28666-8
Tremain takes risks in making the protagonist of her new novel a clever, precocious and inquisitive 13-year-old boy, but this gifted writer (Restoration) succeeds brilliantly in creating an intensely imagined and sophisticated story. Lewis Little...
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Rose Tremain, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (480p) ISBN 978-0-374-19989-0
As she proved in Restoration, Tremain can write literary historical novels whose period details encompass the social and intellectual currents of their time and place. This dazzlingly imaginative, powerfully atmospheric work is set mainly in 17th-cen
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Rose Tremain, Author Viking Books $19.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-83109-8
The double import of Tremain's title--it refers both to the reign of the 17th-century Restoration King Charles II and to the restoration to the protagonist of his beloved home and aspirations for his life--is one of the subtle delights of this...
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Rose Tremain, Author Penguin Books $9.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-14-012893-2
Set in the 17th century, this critically acclaimed novel focuses on Robert Merivel, whose courtly duties include stints as veterinarian to the Royal Dogs, unofficial Fool, and husband to the king's mistress. ``A thoroughly satisfying read, the...
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Rose Tremain. Norton, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-393-07957-9
Set in 1683, 15 years after the end of Tremain’s Restoration, this sequel finds sometime doctor, sometime court jester Robert Merivel restless despite his comfortable county estate in England. Merivel travels to Versailles looking for joie de vivre,
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Rose Tremain. Norton, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-24671-1
In the title story, which kicks off this collection from Tremain (Man Booker Prize shortlisted for Restoration), Beth, a British author nearing 30, has recently been in a car accident that broke both her legs. Recuperating at her parents’ apartment,
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Rose Tremain. Norton, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-24669-8
Tremain’s (The American Lover) melancholic latest centers on the lifelong friendship between Gustav Perle and Anton Zweibel. The book begins in 1947 Switzerland with Gustav and his mother, Emilie, a selfish woman whom Gustav loves in spite of her...
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Rose Tremain, Author, Michael Praed, Read by, Clare Wille, With , read by Michael Praed, Clare Wille and Alison Dowling. Naxos $34.98 (0p) ISBN 978-962-634-975-5
Michael Praed shines in his performance of Tremain's 1995 Whitbread Award–winning novel. His intimate, sensual voice and use of pacing—even within sentences—adds nuance to each scene. He has a distinct voice for each character,
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