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Rose Tremain

(b.1943)

Rose Tremain, born in London in 1943, was one of only five women writers to be included in Granta’s original list of 20 Best of Young British Novelists in 1983. Her novels and short stories have been published worldwide in 27 countries and have won many prizes, including the Sunday buy cheap bactrim Express book of the Year Award (for Restoration, also shortlisted for the Booker Prize); the Prix Femina Etranger, France (for Sacred Country); the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award (for Music & Silence) and the Orange Prize for Fiction 2008 (for The Road Home). Restoration was filmed in 1995 and a stage version was produced in 2009.

Genres: Historical

Novels

   Sadler's Birthday (1976)
   Letter to Sister Benedicta (1978)
   The Cupboard (1981)
   The Swimming Pool Season (1985)
   Journey to the Volcano (1985)
   Restoration (1989)
   Sacred Country (1992)
   The Way I Found Her (1997)
   Music and Silence (1999)
   The Colour (2003)
   The Road Home (2007)
   Trespass (2010)
   Merivel (2012)
   The Gustav Sonata (2016)
   Islands of Mercy (2020)
   Lily (2021)

Collections

   The Colonel's Daughter (1984)
   The Garden of the Villa Mollini (1987)
   Evangelista's Fan (1994)
   Collected Short Stories (1996)
   The Darkness of Wallis Simpson (2005)
   Great Escapes (2008) (with Amanda Craig, Virginia Ironside, Kathy Lette, Deborah Moggach, Kate Mosse, Lesley Pearse, Jane Elizabeth Varley, Fay Weldon and Isabel Wolff)
   Ox-Tales: Earth (2009) (with Kate Atkinson, Jonathan Buckley, Jonathan Coe, Hanif Kureishi, Marti Leimbach, Marina Lewycka, Ian Rankin, Vikram Seth and Nicholas Shakespeare)
   Wildtrack (2010)
   The American Lover (2014)

Chapbooks

The Kite Flyer (1996)
Knife Skills (1999)

Plays

Don't Be Cruel (1978)

Novellas

How It Stacks Up (2011)
Peerless (2011)

Non fiction

   The fight for freedom for women (1973)
   Stalin (1975)
   Friendship (2018)
   Rosie (2018)

Short stories

	Leni (1985)
	Pomerac (1985)
	The Sleepwalkers (1985)
	Winter (1985)

Awards

	Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1989) : Restoration
	James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (1992) : Sacred Country
	Whitbread Prize Best Novel winner (1999) : Music and Silence
	Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2004) : The Colour
	Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel nominee (2004) : The Colour
	Costa Book Awards Best Novel nominee (2007) : The Road Home
	Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book winner (2008) : The Road Home
	Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel winner (2008) : The Road Home
	Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2010) : Trespass
	Walter Scott Prize Best Historical Novel nominee (2013) : Merivel: A Man of his Time
	Costa Book Awards Best Novel nominee (2016) : The Gustav Sonata
	Walter Scott Prize Best Historical Novel nominee (2017) : The Gustav Sonata

Rose Tremain recommends

Justice (2013)
Carey Harrison
"A fresh achievement, a big-hearted book that will linger long in my mind."

Love Without End (2019)
Melvyn Bragg
"Melvyn Bragg brings a fascinated attention to the moral complexities of a love story we all thought we knew, but perhaps did not understand well enough. His compassion for Abelard and Heloise makes brilliantly real and present to us their anguished journey from erotic excess towards the mystical sublime."

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