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Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain
$45.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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
Lily: A Tale of Revenge by Rose Tremain
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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
$27.00 NZD
Category: Historical 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
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
Restoration by Rose Tremain
$21.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Robert Merivel abandons his medical studies for the vibrant Court of Charles II, where he finds unexpected favour with the King and serves as a 'paper groom' to the youngest of the royal mistresses. But by falling in love with her, Merivel violates the one rule that will cast him out from his new found ...Show more
Restoration (Merival Book 1) by Rose Tremain
$27.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
When a twist of fate delivers an ambitious young medical student to the court of King Charles II, he is suddenly thrust into a vibrant world of luxury and opulence. Blessed with a quick wit and sparkling charm, Robert Merivel rises quickly, soon finding favour with the King, and privileged with a positi ...Show more
Restoration (Merivel #1) by Rose Tremain (Introduction by)
$27.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Merivel
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 s ...Show more
Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life by Rose Tremain
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
*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
$27.00 NZD
Category: World 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 American Lover by Rose Tremain
$35.00 NZD
Category: World 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 Darkness of Wallis Simpson, and other stories by Rose Tremain
$28.00 NZD
Category: World 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