Tremain (Restoration ) turns in a low-key but emotionally potent look at the melancholia of migration for her 14th book. Olev, a 42-year-old widower from an unnamed former east bloc republic, is ...

British author Rose Tremain landed the Orange Prize for women writers on Wednesday with “The Road Home,” the tale of an East European immigrant grappling with the challenges of life in London. “This ...

"Trespass" (W.W. Norton, $24.95), by Rose Tremain: In her latest novel, "Trespass," Rose Tremain uses delicate, almost gauzy, gorgeous language to gently place her tale in the most pastoral of ...

In seems apt that Rose Tremain, who has published novels with music as their focus (Music and Silence, The Gustav Sonata) should begin her own memoir thus: "I can remember this: lying in my pram and ...

Born in 1943, Rose Tremain grew up in London and studied at the Sorbonne and UEA, Norwich, where she later taught creative writing (1988-1995). After working in publishing, she became a full-time ...

Set in 1683, 15 years after the end of Tremain’s Restoration, this sequel finds sometime doctor, sometime court jester Robert Merivel restless despite his comfortable county estate in England. Merivel ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter I trudge up the hill to the handsome Regency mansion on the edge of Norwich where (in one wing) Rose Tremain has lived with the ...

Trespass is the latest example of Rose Tremain's refusal to be bound by style or genre, says Holly Kyte Rose Tremain is an unpredictable author. Her novels have tackled the court of Charles II, modern ...

The novelist explains why she had to abandon the classroom in favour of her own writing and talks about her new collection of short stories Rose Tremain, an outstanding novelist with more than a dozen ...

This is a perfect novel about life’s imperfection. Gustav is a mother’s boy growing up during the second world war in Switzerland. He has had to learn to have a stiff upper lip. Yet neutrality, in ...

Gustav Perle is a young boy growing up in Switzerland after World War II. And the defining factor in his life is that his mother does not love him. The Gustav Sonata is Rose Tremain's 13th novel.

Rose Tremain was 45 years old and had already written five novels when, in 1989, she published Restoration. It was she says, 'a strange time' in her life. She was in an unhappy marriage – her second. ...