Joanna Trollope Books

The BP Portrait Award, now in its twenty - fourth year, is one of Britain's most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throughout the world specialising in portraiture. Last year more than 255,000 people visited the exhibition, which is based on the competition open to all artists aged eighteen and over from around the world. The catalogue features sixty works from an international list of artists, which together display a diverse range of styles and painterly techniques. It also includes a fascinating essay by bestselling novelist, Joanna Trollope, and interviews with the prizewinners by Richard McClure give further insight into the artists behind the portraits.

Trollope's comic masterpiece of plotting and backstabbing opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. Soon a pitched battle breaks out over who will take power, involving, among others, the zealous reformer Dr Proudie, his fiendish wife and the unctuous schemer Obadiah Slope.

1988--As the rumblings of dissent and racial resentment began to erupt into a savage war between Boer and Briton, so three young men found their lives drawn together. Matthew Paget, son of an archdeacon, was turbulent, rebellious, and longing for excitement. Throwing away all the privileges that could have been his, he enlisted as a trooper--only to find himself loving the beautiful war-torn country of Africa and finally falling in love with a girl on the enemy side. Will Marriott, his cousin, was an officer who believed in England's greatness and the glory of battle. But as his comrades were maimed and killed, as he himself was wounded, and then betrayed by a one-time friend, so his values began to change. The one thing that never changed was his love for Frances, Matthew Paget's sister. Hendon Bashford was an upstart social climber, a swindler and a cheat. Half English, half Boer, he owed allegiance to no one while creating havoc in the lives of more honourable men. As the passage of war unfolded, so the lives of these three young men, and women they loved, moved towards a tumultuous climax.

On the fifteenth of February, 1879, the day on which Queen Supayalat of Mandalay ordered eighty members of of royal family to be clubbed to death, Maria Beresford celebrated her twenty-first birthday. On that day Maria knew nothing of Mandalay, the fairy-tale City of Gems. The selfish, difficult but heart-stoppingly beautiful daughter of a failed tea-planter in India devoted herself to pleasure. But when her father was sent to Burma, and she had to accompany him, she became embroiled in an exotic world of political intrigue. Her friendship with the Queen - a dangerous and unpredictable figure - and her growing closeness to Archie Tennant, a young man who has come east to seek his fortune after the ruin of his family business, brought her both danger and the key to her destiny.

Reading a complete story in English gives students a great sense of achievement - and encourages them to read more. The books are graded at six vocabulary levels, ranging from 250 words (Starter) to 2,500 (Advanced). The activities pages at the back of each Bookworm are designed to helplearners derive maximum benefit and enjoyment from the story.

A network of deep friendships connects the members of two families in the village of Whittingbourne - intelligent, healthy, recognizable families. In this novel about friendships and betrayal, teenagers ache for stability and unwed grandmothers find true love at eighty.

The Taverners had lived at Buscombe, the mellow stone manor house in Wiltshire, for generations. They had farmed the land and sent their sons to war (and even, latterly, to commerce) in a way of life that seemed timeless. But in 1870 a new generation is about to take control - Tom Taverner, dedicated, impulsive, deeply caring about his inheritance, and his sister Catherine, intelligent, humorous, but frustrated by the limited opportunities open to women in a man's world. Tom marries, and agricultural depression hits the estate. And suddenly it seems that everything which was so secure can no longer hold. Stretching in time from the 1870s to the outbreak of the second world war, and in distance from Crete to East Africa, this warmly satisfying novel is a triumph of storytelling.

This novel explores the myths, the realities and the difficulties of trying to deal simultaneously with present relationships, past relationships and, above all, with other people's children.

A sweeping historical from the national bestselling author of Marrying the Mistress and Other People's Children. A young woman living in a crumbling villa on the Mediterranean island of Malta endures the deprivation and devastation of wartime bombing -- and learns that while life doesn't always go as planned, neither does love....

A romantic saga set in Florence at the turn of the century, telling the story of a young English girl growing up, falling in love and trying to escape her fortune-hunting husband. Caroline Harvey is a pseudonyn of Joanna Trollope, author of "A Legacy of Love" and "A Second Legacy".

The Bloomsbury Birthday Quids are small editions of short stories by major writers, in a format and style of the Bloomsbury Classics. Printed on high-quality paper, designed by Jeff Fisher, the books should become collectors' items. This title is Faith by Joanna Trollope.

"What a mess, she thought now . . . what a bloody, unholy mess the whole family has got itself into." It's been 25 years since Gus and Monica left England to start a new life in Spain, building a vineyard and wine business from the ground up. However, when Gus suffers a stroke and their idyllic Mediterranean life is thrown into upheaval, it's left to their three grown-up children in London to step in . . . Sebastian is busy running his company with his wife, Anna, who's never quite seen eye-to-eye with her mother-in-law. Katie, a successful solicitor in the city, is distracted by the problems with her long-term partner, Nic, and the secretive lives of their three daughters. And Jake, ever the easy-going optimist, is determined to convince his new wife, Bella, that moving to Spain with their 18-month-old would be a good idea. As the children descend on the vineyard, it becomes clear that each has their own idea of how best to handle their mum and dad, as well as the family business. But as long-simmering resentments rise to the surface and tensions reach breaking point, can the family ties prove strong enough to keep them together?

The Reverend Henry Harding was a handsome and prepossessing man. Unfortunately fate had seen fit to bless him with a family of extremely plain and unprepossessing children. Caroline was the least plain, according to Lady Lennox, but the entire Lennox family also admitted that Caroline was the least significant person in Dorset. Caroline, already twenty-six and bullied by her sister, was nervous in company and had no prospects at all. She had one golden memory, of an admirer when she was eighteen, but John Gates, nephew to the Lennox family, had gone to India and forgotten her. Or so she thought. When Caroline was summoned by Lady Lennox to be told that Johnny Gates had sent a proposal of marriage, Caroline first declined. But within a few weeks tragedy had overtaken her. The little security and contentment she had known vanished from her life and left her no option but to accept Lady Lennox's offer. In the October of 1776, Caroline Harding set sail for India, to a new life and a man she had not seen for eight years.

In the gentle precinct of Aldminster Cathedral, crisis looms. The urbane and worldly Dean wants nothing so much as to restore and beautify his beloved Cathedral - even if it means sacrificing the choir school to pay for it.

After twenty years of marriage, a priest's wife rebels and takes a job at a supermarket and gains a sense of her own worth, but the disapproval of her husband and parish

Rachel is the undisputed matriarch of her large family. She has devoted herself to her three sons all their lives. They are, of course, devoted to her and enjoy spending time at Rachel’s ramshackle house near the coast of Suffolk. But when Luke, her youngest, gets married, Rachel realises that her control is slipping away. Then a power struggle develops that can only end in misery as her three daughters-in-law want to do things their own way, and so, to her grief, do her sons...

Judge Guy Stockdale was unprepared for the upheaval in his life that followed his announcement that he intended to marry his mistressna_

__________ A Village Affair, by highly acclaimed author Joanna Trollope, is a stylish, warm story of a marriage, a family, and a village affair. The Grey House is the final piece in the jigsaw of Alice Jordan's perfect life. It seems to be the ultimate achievement of her outwardly happy marriage - a loyal, if dull husband, three children, two cars and now the house. So why does she feel as if something is missing? As Alice and her family settle themselves into village life the something missing becomes something huge and then breaks, scandalizing the village, opening up old wounds. But because of it, Alice begins to feel that there is hope and humour and understanding and compassion in the new life she must build for herself. 'A richly textured and immensely readable novel' Sunday Times

Gina and Laurence have been best friends. Now, Gina is married to Fergus and Laurence to Hilary. Then, with elegant disdain, Fergus announces that he is leaving Gina and their daughter. Gina turns for emotional support to Laurence. And as Laurence gives comfort, so his own marriage and the stability of his children edges towards destruction.

The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza from her own engagement party to someone else, wooed her, swept her off to his father in Scotland, and finally married her. Now bedded firmly into country life-three children, Archie the village doctor, Liza a teacher, everything comfortable, funny, affectionate,—they awaited the arrival of Archie's father, the brilliant Sir Andrew Logan, a widower for over thirty years.When his city-clean Rover stopped in the drive, Sir Andrew was not alone. Beside him was a golden lady in caramel suede, a warm, witty, desirable widow whom everyone—except Archie—adored at once. Archie saw his father's mistress as the worm in the bud of his perfect life—a life that was to be wrenched apart before he and Liza could re-create their world.

Alice is 38 and has a house, a husband, two teenage children and a part-time job. She thinks she ought to be happy, but he isn't. Instead she feels that she has vanished, that she is like something lost down the back of the sofa. Because Alice has a secret that is never spoken of in the she can't read. Now timid, quiet Alice must start out on her own brave journey, and for it she chooses the strangest companion. For the first time in her life, she knows what she wants and she is going to get it. With the help of the book boy.

Lizzie and Frances are twins, together forming part of a unit. Lizzie is the twin who has everything, husband, children, a flourishing career and a beautiful house and worries about Frances who seems to lead a solitary life in London ricocheting from one disastrous man to the next. Lizzie just wants Frances to share in her own satisfying life.

Set in the heart of English farmland, this novel portrays a family at a tragic crossroads. Caro's death causes each member of the family to feel vulnerable to time and change, but they all underestimate Zoe's power as a catalyst for a transformation.

Julia and Kate have, it seems, each found true happiness with men old enough to be their fathers. That is until the appearance of elderly spinster Miss Beatrice Bachelor, who sets off a chain of events in which many suppressed discontents and frustrations emerge.

The “brilliant, mesmerizing storyteller” ( The Washington Post ) Joanna Trollope illuminates an experience shared by millions of people: a soldier’s return to family life causes three generations of a family to struggle with the impact of war on their relationships. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN LOVE AND DUTY COLLIDE? DAN RILEY IS A MAJOR IN THE BRITISH ARMY. After a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan, he is coming home to the wife and young daughters he adores. He’s up for promotion and his ex-Army grandfather and father couldn’t be prouder. The Rileys are united in support of Dan’s passion for his career. But are they really? His wife, Alexa, has been offered a good teaching job she can’t take because the Army may move the family at any time. Her daughter Isabel hates her boarding school—the only good educational option for Army families—and starts running away. And Dan spends all his time on the base, unable to break the strong bonds forged with his friends in battle. Soon everyone who knows the Rileys is trying to help them save their marriage, but it’s up to Alexa to decide if she can sacrifice her needs and those of her family to support Dan’s commitment to his work. With her trademark intelligence and grace, Joanna Trollope illuminates the complexities of modern life in this story of a family striving to balance duty and ambition.

Richie had been a celebrated musician, wealthy, popular, and adored by Chrissie and their three daughters. But when he dies, without warning, Chrissie has to deal not only with her grief but with the knowledge that her beloved Richie had another family, one which he had deserted many years before but which now needs to be involved. And their involvement extends not only to the immediate aftermath of a sudden death, but to the longer-term and much more difficult issue - who will inherit his legacy? Chrissie and her girls, comfortably off in London, or Margaret, the deserted wife, living in the North East with Richie's only son? This is an intriguing and timely novel about inheritance, and what happens in a tangled family when someone dies.

Two Families. One Proposal. A decision that could pull them apart. The twenty-first novel from the number one bestselling author of City of Friends.

When Captain Edgar Drummond learns he is to serve his first commission in the Crimean war, he brings with him his two sisters, Blanche, the beauty, and Sarah, the bright, eager intelligent one. It will, after all, only be a skirmish. Slowly, as the horrors of the Crimea begin to pervade their lives, the sisters true qualities begin to emerge. Blanche discovers her physical beauty and unabashed frivolity have no place in the harsh world of war and she behaves disgracefully. Edgar, stiff and conventional, finds his obsession with reason and order ineffectual amidst the chaos of war. He cannot cope with his job, not looking after his sisters. Only Sarah finds the courage to take an active role in the war, to protest against the horrors to which the common soldiers are subjected. Her love for the unconventional newspaper man who opens her to reality is thwarted first by her wicked, winsome sister, then by the vagaries of war, but eventually they are brought together in a dirty, slum like room on the quayside at Scutari.

Susie Moran is a success . She has founded and run her own highly profitable company, and now her three daughters are all involved in the business. Rooted in the traditions of the Stoke-on-Trent potteries, and producing charming, useable objects of distinctive design, Susie is justly proud of her family and her achievement – and has no intention of letting it change. But what of the men in the family? Susie's husband, a musician and artist, has always seemed happy to take a back seat. One of her sons-in-law has few ambitions outside the home. Another daughter, though, has brought her husband into the company - and they want to change things, much to Susie's distress. And then, into the mix arrives Susie's father, an ageing hippy who abandoned Susie as a baby. Now he's alone, and wants to build bridges , although Susie's daughters are outraged at the idea. Can the needs of a family business override the needs of the family itself? In wanting to preserve her business, will Susie lose something much more precious?

Nathalie and David have been good and dutiful children to their parents, and now, grown-up, with their own families, they are still close to one another. Brother and sister. Except that they aren't - brother and sister that is.They were both adopted, when their loving parents, found that they couldn't have children themselves. And up until now it's never mattered. But suddenly, Nathalie discovers a deep need to trace her birth parents and is insisting that David makes the same journey. And through this, both learn one of the hardest lessons of all, that sometimes, the answers to who we are and where we come from can be more difficult than the questions ...

Follows the fortunes of a small group of the young and single, the children of sixties swingers.

The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life. Or at least, the only life she'd ever known. For who was she if not a City high-flyer, Senior Partner at one of the top private equity firms in London? As Stacey starts to reconcile her old life with the new - one without professional achievements or meetings, but instead, long days at home with her dog and ailing mother, waiting for her successful husband to come home - she at least has The Girls to fall back on. Beth, Melissa and Gaby. The girls, now women, had been best friends from the early days of university right through their working lives, and for all the happiness and heartbreaks in between. But these career women all have personal problems of their own, and when Stacey's redundancy forces a betrayal to emerge that was supposed to remain secret, their long cherished friendships will be pushed to their limits.

Paperback edition of Trollope's reworking of Jane Austen's "Sense & Sensibility" in a contemporary setting. The first book in The Austen Project, in which modern authors rewrite all of Austen's novels. 'Jane Austen's story and Joanna Trollope's voice make the perfect marriage.' Sophie Kinsella

It's Eleanor who starts the Friday nights. From her window she sees two young women, with small children, separate, struggling and plainly lonely - and decides to ask them in, and see what happens. What happens is that a group gradually forms, a group of six different and disparate women, who become a circle of friends. They range in age from Jules, who is twenty-two and wants to be a DJ, to Eleanor herself, who is a retired professional and walks with a stick. They include one wife, three mothers, three singletons and five working women. They all of them, variously, value Friday nights. And then one of them meets a man - an enigmatic significant man - and the whole dynamic changes. The bonds that have been so closely forged are tested - and some of them break. With wit and warmth, Joanna Trollope explores the complexities, the sabotages, and the shifting currents of modern friendship.

From Victorian England through the decades to World War II, bestselling author Joanna Trollope, writing as Caroline Henry, follows three women through four generations of the same family as they each discover the futility of best-laid plans, and the absolute necessity of dreams.

A #1 bestseller in Britain, this passionate yet compellingly realistic novel is Trollope's most commercial to date. After a lifetime of not measuring up to her perfect twin sister, Lizzie, Frances decides to start playing by different rules. She takes a married lover, a Spanish Catholic who will never leave his wife, and--much to everyone's surprise--becomes the envy of Lizzie.

In "Herbstlichter" kämpft Anna mit der Entfremdung von ihrem Ehemann und finanziellen Schwierigkeiten, findet jedoch durch einen unkonventionellen Job und die Zuneigung eines anderen Mannes neues Selbstbewusstsein. In "Wirbel des Lebens" wird die harmonische Familie von Liza und Archie durch aufgedeckte Geheimnisse und überraschende Wendungen auf die Probe gestellt.

Alexa ist aufgeregt. Endlich kommt ihr Mann Dan wieder zurück, nach sechs Monaten Afghanistan. Das Haus ist von oben bis unten gewienert und aufgeräumt, die Kinder sind bei Freunden untergebracht, Alexa war bei der Maniküre. Dan wird überglücklich sein. Doch was, wenn alles ganz anders kommt?

Twee geadopteeerde dertigers met ieder een eigen gezin hebben nog steeds vragen over hun afkomst en gaan op zoek naar hun biologische moeders.

Eleanor hat Angst vor der Leere nach der Pensionierung, bis sie sechs jüngeren Frauen begegnet. Sie treffen sich freitags, bringen ihre Kinder mit und entwickeln intensive Freundschaften. Joanna Trollope untersucht einfühlsam das Phänomen der Freundschaft unter Frauen in einer Welt voller Herausforderungen.

Die junge Alexia muss nach dem Scheitern ihrer Ehe für sich und ihre Tochter allein sorgen. Als sie in Schottland ein halbverfallenes Schloss erbt, sieht sie die Möglichkeit, es zu einem Hotel auszubauen.

Die lebens- und abenteuerlustige Charlotte heiratet 1841 einen englischen Offizier, der in Indien stationiert ist. Sie folgt ihm und begegnet dort der Liebe ihres Lebens.

Román vypráví o osudech dalších generací rodiny, jejíž tradici založila nekonformní Charlotta. Alexie po krachu svého manželství odchází do Skotska, aby se pokusila naplnit svůj sen o nezávislosti i o nové lásce. Druhá část sleduje tápání Alexiny dcery Karly, která se vydává po stopách legendární Charlotty do Afghánistánu.

Hrdinkou je nepříliš hezká dcera venkovského pastora, rodinou opomíjená dívka, která po otcově smrti odplouvá do Indie, kde se má provdat za téměř cizího člověka. Cestou se spřátelí s dívkou z vyšší společnosti, svěří jí svůj osud a ta jí nabídne útočiště, ale hrdinka nechce být nikomu na obtíž a raději se provdá za bezcharakterního opilce, který jí dělá ze života peklo. Díky přítelkyni se ale dostane mezi kalkatskou společenskou smetánku a svou odvahou a nekonvenčností vzbudí zájem bohatého šlechtice... Ženský román s romantickou zápletkou se odehrává na konci 18. století zčásti v Anglii a zčásti v exotickém prostředí mezi anglickými úředníky v Kalkatě

Romanticko-historická kniha je určena hlavně ženám, které milují nekončící rodinné ságy. Zachycuje životní příběhy hrdinek tří generací v letech 1830 až 1945. Postupně nás zavádí do různých míst autorčiny rodné Velké Británie, ale i do daleké Indie a Afghánistánu. Bouřlivé osudy hrdinek, jejich společenský život i fatální lásky jsou podtrženy barvitým a živým líčením krajiny a přírody, které všem částem knihy dodává nádech romantické skutečnosti i exotiky

Jaké jsou osudy dvou odlišných žen, jež spojuje jediný prvek - obě jsou podstatně mladší než jejich partneři? Julia Hunterová a Kate Bainová našly, jak se zdá, skutečné štěstí s muži, kteří by mohli být jejich otcové. Bezchybná Julie organizuje svého muže Hugha, televizní celebritu, stejně zdatně jako jejich milovanou domácnost a andělská dvojčata. Kate žije už osm let s Jamesem Mallowem, učitelem v důchodu a ačkoliv si ho odmítá vzít, je zřejmě, že ho zbožňuje. Hugh a James jsou celoživotními přáteli a nyní po šedesátce se cítí jako v nebi. Ale věkové rozdíly nemohou být ignorovány navždy. James srazí z kola při své roztržité večerní jízdě deštivým Oxfordem slečnu Beatrici Bachelorovou. Ve chvíli, kdy tato excentrická a velmi nezávislá stará panna vstoupí do jejich života, spustí se řetězec událostí, během kterých vyjde najevo nespokojenost a mnoho frustrací. Kate začne vyhledávat přátele v jejím věku, zatímco Julia najde rozkvět své kariéry přesně v době, kdy její manžel začíná přirozeně upadat. Poklidné životy těchto mužů a dívek jsou silně narušeny novými vztahy a starými pocity úzkosti, které vyplývají na povrch. Cítí, že to už nikdy nebude stejně poklidné jako dřív.

Většina lidí ví, odkud pochází, kam patří. David a Natálie nikoli. Vyrostli společně jako sourozenci, jsou silně závislí jeden na druhém. Každého ovšem porodila jiná matka. Na prahu čtyřicítky v nich zvítězí touha poznat své biologické matky. Není to jednoduchá cesta ani pro Davida a Natálii, není to ovšem stadné ani pro jejich partnery a okolí.

Slavný román Jane Austenové přenesla do dnešního světa současná anglická spisovatelka Joanna Trollopeová. Provedla to s mimořádnou empatií, humorem, pokorou k originálu, ale také s nevídanou odvahou. Za dvě stě let se změnilo naše vyjadřování, společenské zvyklosti, životní styl, přibyly technické vymoženosti, zůstala ale touha po lásce, bezpečí, po blízkosti druhého. Z lásky možná není úniku ani emancipace – ještě že rozum i cit jsou stále s námi!