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Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life by Rose Tremain
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
*The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller* Rose Tremain grew up in post-war London, a city of grey austerity, still partly in ruins, where both food and affection were fiercely rationed. The girl known then as 'Rosie' and her sister Jo spent their days longing for their grandparents' farm, buried deep in th ...Show more
The American Lover by Rose Tremain
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Trapped in a London flat, Beth remembers a transgressive love affair in 1960s' Paris. The most famous writer in Russia takes his last breath in a stationmaster's cottage, miles from Moscow. A father, finally free of his daughter's demands,embarks on a long swim from his Canadian lakeside retreat. And i ...Show more
The American Lover by Rose Tremain
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is a seductive new collection of stories from the Orange Prize-winning author of The Road Home and Restoration Trapped in a London flat, Beth remembers a transgressive love affair in 1960s' Paris. The most famous writer in Russia takes his last breath in a stationmaster's cottage, miles from Moscow ...Show more
The Colour by Rose Tremain
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
?Deeply moving, surprising, invigorating and satisfying.? ? Independent. In NZ in 2000, Rose Tremain checked out the scenery and the museums. Then she went further than most tourists, writing a novel inspired by what she?d seen. The Colour is a fabulous historical novel set against the background ...Show more
The Darkness of Wallis Simpson by Rose Tremain
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
The multi-award-winning writer offers a fascinating collection of short stories with such diverse characters as the forgetful consort of a former king, an East German border guard made redundant once the Berlin Wall comes down, and a baby who grows wings.
The Darkness of Wallis Simpson, and other stories by Rose Tremain
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward Vlll 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 ...Show more
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction A poignant tale about the enduring friendship between two men under the shadow of the Second World War. Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he li ...Show more
The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'It was a game of love and death. Neither of us will ever speak about it. It's locked inside us.' Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem distant. He adores his mother but she treats him with bitter severity, disapproving especially of his int ...Show more
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'On the coach, Lev chose a seat near the back and he sat huddled against the window, staring out at the land he was leaving ...' Lev is on his way to Britain to seek work, so that he can send money back to Eastern Europe to support his mother and little daughter. Readers will become totally involved wit ...Show more
The Road Home by Rose Tremain
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In the story of Lev, newly arrived in London from Eastern Europe, Rose Tremain has written a wise and witty book about the contemporary migrant experience. On the coach, Lev chose a seat near the back and he sat huddled against the window, staring out at the land he was leaving. . . . Lev is on his way ...Show more
The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"The Way I Found Her is a magical invention of page-turning suspense, of sadness, of grief and passion, whose sure and delicate exposure of a sensibility flowering one hot Parisian summer teaches us the price of experience. Do not miss it" Elizabeth Buchan, The Times First published 1997.
Trespass by Rose Tremain
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
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 bu ...Show more