Memory -- Fiction

On the surface, Annie's life in a wealthy Florida suburb is happy and idyllic. Her husband, Gray, loves her fiercely and they dote on their beautiful daughter, Victory. But cracks are starting to appear as demons from Annie's past come back to haunt her. It is a past she has no memory of and it w...

Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, ended her life as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone - friend, foe or journalist to visit her in her Paris flat. Rose Tremain turns this story into an ironic fiction. The other stories ran...

In the title story, we find Wallis Simpson aged and bedridden, forbidden to leave the hosue by her lawyer who would not allow anyone to visit her. Tremain takes this true-life account and transforms it into a superbly imaginative and ironic fiction.

How does a lost love lead an unlikely terrorist into the near-fatal embrace of his torturer? This is the story of Augustus Rose - half African-American, half Italian, lover, restaurateur, unlikely terrorist - and his interrogator, Harper, a Grand Inquisitor armed with cruelty, clarity and charisma.

Arthur Pettinger's memory isn't what it used to be. He can't always remember the names of his grandchildren, where he lives or which way round his slippers go. He does remember Maryse though, a woman he hasn't seen for decades, but whose face he will never forget. When Arthur's granddaughter Mad...

George Weisz has spent his entire life in the pursuit of a single aim: to recreate his father's study exactly as it was that evening in 1938 when the Nazis arrived and the family home was abandoned forever. 60 years later, one final piece of the puzzle remains to be found. And someone who he leas...

A story of love, loss and the distance between three generations of one family, this novel centres on Iris and Ruby - a grandmother and her granddaughter - as they try and make sense of their respective lives.

A story of love, loss and the distance between three generations of one family, this novel centres on Iris and Ruby - a grandmother and her granddaughter - as they try and make sense of their respective lives.

This tragicomic novel revolves around the notion of memory: one character falls into a pit of forgetfulness through Alzheimer's and tries to claw her way out, while the other, her son, is a hypermnesic synaesthete - his memory in unrelentingly exact and he sees people's voices as explosions of co...

Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less 6th form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Now Tony is in middle age and is finding that memory is imperfect.