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Rose Tremain

August 2024

  • Violin players in orchestra

    Five of the best
    Five of the best books about classical music

    Great writers make words sing on the page. These five authors, including Rose Tremain and Ian McEwan, put music on the main stage

June 2024

  • Author Rose Tremain, at home. 22/5/24 Norwich Ali Smith for The Guardian

    Books interview
    Rose Tremain: ‘Sex scenes are like arias in opera. They have to move the story forwards’

  • Paul Weller by Dean Chalkley

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

September 2023

  • Rose Tremain evokes English country house parties in the 1950s.

    Absolutely & Forever by Rose Tremain review – a lost first love

  • Chelsea Girls in London during the late 1960s

    Book of the day
    Absolutely & Forever by Rose Tremain review – high style and bittersweet yearning

May 2023

  • Fly Boy by JJ Bola.

    Children's book reviews round-up
    Picture books for children – reviews

    Rose Tremain and JJ Bola become the latest novelists to turn their hands to writing for young children with tales about a magical metal bird and a boy overcoming his anger

June 2022

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    Authors at Hay festival weigh the meaning of authenticity

    Who can write about whom was a running question, tackled by writers from Rose Tremain to Damon Galgut

April 2022

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    The Q&A
    Rose Tremain: ‘My father I hardly knew and my mother hardly bothered to get to know me’

    The author on moonlighting as an agony aunt, a cat called Fluffy and Ben Fogle’s strong brown legs

December 2021

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    The books of my life
    Rose Tremain: ‘My comfort reads are MasterChef cookbooks’

    The author on the teenage thrill of reading Lawrence Durrell, finally understanding Balzac, and the novels of Cormac McCarthy

November 2021

  • Rose Tremain at home in Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk, Britain - 15 Oct 2014<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Tony Buckingham/REX/Shutterstock (4251553g) Rose Tremain Rose Tremain at home in Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk, Britain - 15 Oct 2014

    Lily by Rose Tremain review – Foundling Hospital melodrama

    There are wolves, kindly constables and suffering aplenty in this ‘tale of revenge’ set in Victorian London

October 2020

  • The British ship Dido off the coast of Sarawak, Borneo, 1843, by George Hawkins the Younger.

    Book of the day
    Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain review – a globe-trotting adventure

    There are glimpses of Tremain at her best in a passionate tale of coloniser and colonised in the British empire

September 2020

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    Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain review – a rich, world-straddling saga

    Set between Bath and Borneo, this 14th novel skilfully explores familiar themes of desire, frustration and the quest for meaning

April 2020

  • Illustration: Owen Gatley

    Women's prize at 25: what it is like to win by Zadie Smith, Naomi Alderman and more

    Winning authors explain how the award changed their lives and share their favourite books by women

July 2019

  • James Wilby (as Maurice) and Hugh Grant in the 1987 film of EM Forster’s novel.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 queer rural books

    Sexual freedom is most often associated with the city, but a small but growing canon including EM Forster and Sarah Waters tells a different story

November 2018

  • Audre Lorde lectures students in 1983.

    Is contemporary poetry really in 'a rotten state' - or just a new one?

    Sandeep Parmar
    Rose Tremain and Robin Robertson have criticised poets for abandoning ‘craft’ – but that argument silences the possibilities offered by new voices

September 2018

  • Ian McEwan, 1979 (photo)<br>617734 Ian McEwan, 1979 (photo); Private Collection; (add.info.: Ian McEwan (b. 1948). Best-selling English novelist. Also screenwriter and librettist. He has won numerous literary awards, including the Man Brooker Prize for Amsterdam (1998). Several of his novels have been made into films, most notably the Oscar-winning Atonement (2001) adapted in 2007. Awarded a CBE.); Photo © Mark Gerson; out of copyright.

    From the Observer archive
    From the archive: getting ready for university in 1985

    Ian McEwan, Rose Tremain and Peter Whalley reveal what they really thought about going to uni and how it prepared them for life

April 2018

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    Rosie by Rose Tremain review – a tale of two unloved daughters

    The novelist refuses to give her mother a free pass, yet isn’t sorry for herself, in this memoir jangling with grievance
  • Rose Tremain in Switzerland in 1960.

    Book of the day
    Rosie: Scenes from a Vanished Life by Rose Tremain review – fascinating and frustrating

    Rose Tremain’s account of her unhappy upper-class childhood, from postwar London to Swiss finishing school, is more intriguing than revealing
  • REVIEW - Rose Tremain photographed in her home in Norwich. Photograph: Alecsandra Raluca Dragoi for the Guardian

    Rose Tremain: ‘I don’t want to write for vengeance. It’s cheap and angry’

    A cruel mother, an absent father, a beloved nanny ... the writer on the ‘frozen world’ of her childhood, and why she wishes she had won the Booker prize

December 2017

  • From left, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Toni Morrison, Kit de Waal, Anne Enright and Flann O’Brien.

    'Women are better writers than men': novelist John Boyne sets the record straight

    Male authors are always pronouncing their own brilliance – or boasting about not reading books by women. So, after a lifetime spent writing and attending literary festivals, John Boyne would like to get something off his chest …
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