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1	The Road Home more books like this by Rose Tremain add to wishlist '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 with his story, as he struggles with the ... see all copies from $2.44! new only from $7.79! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Music & Silence more books like this by Rose Tremain add to wishlist In Denmark in 1629, King Christian IV is troubled by his country's poverty after a long series of wars, as well as by the coldness of his wife, who has a German lover. When a lute player named Peter Claire joins the king's orchestra, Christian seizes on Peter's resemblance to a childhood friend and decides that Peter is divinely sent to provide ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.20! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Sacred country more books like this by Rose Tremain add to wishlist Mary Ward realizes at the age of six that she is not a girl but a boy. The story that follows chronicles her attempt to turn this insight into a reality. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.71! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Restoration more books like this by Rose Tremain add to wishlist This novel takes place in the court of Charles II. Young Robert Merivel, the court veterinarian, marries the king's mistress and makes the mistake of falling in love with his own wife. RESTORATION was short-listed for the Booker Prize. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Way I Found Her more books like this by Rose Tremain add to wishlist Young Lewis Little is spending the summer in Paris with his mother Alice, who is translating a medieval romance by best-selling novelist Valentina Gavrilovich. Lewis is only 13, but the moment he meets the beautiful and exotic Valentina, he falls in love. When she disappears under mysterious circumstances, Lewis sets out to find her. A New York ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Colour more books like this by Rose Tremain add to wishlist This is a writer whose breadth of imagination and supple prose transcend the genre: she is one of the finest writers in English' Daily Telegraph. Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from Norfolk to New Zealand in search of new beginnings and prosperity. But the harsh land near Christchurch where they settle threatens to destroy them almost ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The fight for freedom for women. more books like this by Rose Tremain add to wishlist see all copies from $9.00! first editions
8	The Darkness of Wallis Simpson by Rose Tremain add to wishlist 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 into an imaginative and ironic fiction. Her ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $11.71! \| first editions
9	Evangelista's Fan more books like this by Rose Tremain add to wishlist In Rose Tremain's teasing and brilliant title story, "Evangelista's Fan" set in a disturbing dreamlike version of Regency London, a young Italian clockmaker contrives a magical means, not only of repairing time, but also of unlocking the mechanism of sexual happiness. This collection demonstrates the enormous range of her talent and imagination. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Restoration: Tie-In Edition more books like this by Rose Tremain add to wishlist This novel takes place in the court of Charles II. Young Robert Merivel, the court veterinarian, marries the king's mistress and makes the mistake of falling in love with his own wife. RESTORATION was short-listed for the Booker Prize. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $49.13!
11	The Way I Found Herof the World more books like this by Rose Tremain add to wishlist Young Lewis Little is spending the summer in Paris with his mother Alice, who is translating a medieval romance by best-selling novelist Valentina Gavrilovich. Lewis is only 13, but the moment he meets the beautiful and exotic Valentina, he falls in love. When she disappears under mysterious circumstances, Lewis sets out to find her. A New York ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.96! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Swimming pool season more books like this by Rose Tremain add to wishlist After the collapse of 'Aquazure', his swimming pool construction business, Larry and Miriam Kendall have exiled themselves to a sleepy French village. When Miriam is summoned to her mother's deathbed in Oxford, Larry begins to formulate a dazzling new idea: the creation of the most beautiful, the most artistic swimming pool of all. Around them, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.93! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The garden of the Villa Mollini and other stories by Rose Tremain add to wishlist These short stories deal with ideas about mutability, improvement and escape into new worlds, and involve characters who constantly fail to understand themselves or anyone else. They also celebrate the small success or fragment of knowledge which can contribute to a person's experience of life. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $70.86! \| signed copies \| first editions
14	Journey to the Volcano more books like this by Rose Tremain add to wishlist The setting is Sicily, on the slopes of Mount Etna. George's parents are separated, and when he is snatched by his Sicilian mother from the familiar surrounds of his London school and his father's frozen dinners, George's world is completely transformed. see all copies from $2.53! first editions
15 view cover	The Garden of the Villa Mollini by Rose Tremain add to wishlist The stories have a strange, fairy-tale quality: the simple, beautiful prose, the sense of inevitability, the use of allusion and metaphor to suggest undercurrents of disturbing portent' Selina Hastings, Daily Telegraph see all copies from $11.71! new only from $11.71!
16 view cover	Sadler's birthday more books like this by Rose Tremain add to wishlist '"Sadler's Birthday" is as far from the stereotype of a young woman's first novel as it can be. It is a masterly study of a lonely but loyal man that is deeply felt, intelligent and often touchingly funny. I liked it very much' - Angus Wilson.Today is Jack Sadler's birthday. Or is it? He's not sure, doesn't care. It might be his last day or the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
17	Stalin more books like this by Rose Tremain add to wishlist see all copies from $35.46! first editions
18	The kite flyer. more books like this by Rose Tremain add to wishlist A selection of modern stories by the bestselling author of "Restoration". They demonstrate her wit, irony and range. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
19	Trio: Three Stories From Cheltenham by William Trevor Jane Gardam, Rose Tremain add to wishlist Includes "Bevis" by Jane Gardam, "A Friendship" by William Trevor and "The Candle Maker" by Rose Tremain. These stories were read to the Cheltenham Festival of Literature in 1991, 1992 and 1993 respectively. see all copies from $2.40!
20 view cover	Letter to Sister Benedicta more books like this by Rose Tremain add to wishlist Fat and fity, educated only to be a wife and mother, Ruby Constad has reached a point of crisis. Her husband, Leon, lies in a nursing home after a stroke that has left him paralysed; her grown-up children are gone. In her anguish Ruby appeals for help to a half-remembered figure from her colonial Indian girlhood - Sister Benedicta. Gradually the ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $9.36! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Collected short stories by Rose Tremain add to wishlist This volume of Rose Tremain's works brings together her three books of short stories, "The Colonel's Daughter", "The Garden of the Villa Mollini" and "Evangelista's Fan". see all copies from $14.64!
22 view cover	The Mechanics' Institute Review: Issue 4 by David Foster Wallace Rose Tremain, Joyce Carol Oates add to wishlist see all copies from $3.20!
23 view cover	The cupboard more books like this by Rose Tremain add to wishlist When Erica March composes herself to die in a cupboard, she knows that Ralph Pears will find her. For at the age of 87, she had told the young journalist the richly colourful story of her life as novelist, political activist and, above all, lover, from childhood in Suffolk, Paris between the wars, to oblivion in post-war London. At the end of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.60! \| signed copies \| first editions
24	Des Königs Narr. Roman Aus Dem England Des Siebzehnten Jahrhunderts by Rose; Deffner Tremain, Elfie add to wishlist see all copies from $8.48!
25	Musica y Silencio by Rose Tremain add to wishlist Cuando la realidad se erige en obstaculo insalvable para la consecucion de nuestros deseos, el arte es casi el unico refugio del espiritu atormentado, como si el contraste entre luz y sombra, sonido y silencio, palabra y mutismo reflejara mejor que cualquier otra expresion humana las fuerzas antonimas cuyo conflictos suele ser causa del desencanto ... see all copies from $60.73! new only from $60.73!

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