Rose Tremain

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    April 1977
  • Latest Book:
    September 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Merivel

1 - Restoration (May-1990)
2 - Merivel: A Man of His Time (Apr-2013)

Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • Sadler's Birthday

    A bitter-sweet novel about an elderly butler and his dog. He is old and lonely and his little dog serves to remind him of his increasing age. He is master now, where once he served and owns the great house, which is empty - but peopled with his memor...

  • The Cupboard

    Chronicles the extraordinary life of a passionate, brilliant woman writer from her militant advocacy of the suffragette cause and unconventional marriage to her remarkable old age and death at age eighty-seven...

  • The Swimming Pool Season

  • The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories

  • Restoration

    Merivel - 1

    The Booker shortlisted novel that “restored the historical novel to its rightful place of honor” (New York Times).Robert Merivel, son of a glove maker and an aspiring physician, finds his fortunes transformed when he is given a position at the co...

  • Sacred Country

    "I have a secret to tell you, dear, and this is it: I am not Mary. That is a mistake. I am not a girl. I'm a boy." Mary's fight to become Martin, her claustrophobic small town, and her troubled family make up the core of this remarkable and intimate,...

  • Evangelista's Fan

  • The Way I Found Her

    This is the summer that Lewis Little, precocious thirteen-year-old, is spending in Paris with his beautiful mother, Alice, who is translating the latest medieval romance by Valentina Gavrilovich, the bestselling and exotic Russian émigré. This is t...

  • Knife Skills



  • Music & Silence

    Set in seventeenth-century Denmark, Rose Tremain's dazzling, prize-winning tale is a pungently atmospheric, richly provocative, and masterfully orchestrated romance of point and counterpoint: loyalty and deception...tenderness and violence...communit...

  • The Colour

    From the critically-acclaimed historical novelist Rose Tremain comes the The Colour

    Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from England to New Zealand, along with Joseph's mother Lilian, in search of new beginnings and prosperity. ...

  • Garden of the Villa Mollini

    From the author of The Gustav SonataA stunning collection of stories: wide-reaching in subject and setting, each beautifully evoked and brilliantly imagined. Renowned opera singer Antonio Mollini begins construction on what he hopes will be the most ...

  • The Darkness of Wallis Simpson

    A wonderful new collection of short stories, most of which are published here for the first time.

    Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, ended her life (as the Duchess of Windsor) as the priso...

  • The Road Home

    In the wake of factory closings and his beloved wife's death, Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to London, seeking work to support his mother and his little daughter. After a spell of homelessness, he finds a job in the kitchen of a posh restaura...

  • Letter to Sister Benedicta

    Fat and fifty, 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 paralyzed; her grown-up children are gone. In her anguish Ruby appeals for he...

  • Trespass

    In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Aramon, the owner, is 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...

  • Merivel: A Man of His Time

    Merivel - 2

    Get ready to laugh, prepare to weep -- Robert Merivel is back in Rose Tremain’s magical sequel to Restoration. The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone. Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to Charles II, loved for his gift for turning...

  • Merivel

  • The American Lover

    Trapped in a London apartment, 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 young woman who is about to marry a rich aristocrat ...



  • The Gustav Sonata

    A breathtakingly radiant story of an unlikely childhood friendship that survives the test of time. 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 lives al...

  • Islands of Mercy

    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 ...

  • The Colonel's Daughter

  • Lily

  • Iron Robin

  • Absolutely and Forever

Award-Winning Books by Rose Tremain

The Road Home
2008 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rose Tremain has published 25 books.

Rose Tremain does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Absolutely and Forever, was published in September 2023.

The first book by Rose Tremain, Sadler's Birthday, was published in April 1977.

Yes. Rose Tremain has 1 series.
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