Justin Cartwright Books

This novel, set in an African country, Banguniland, with diversions to America and other countries, attempts to exploit 1950s political and social mores. The narrator, son of a journalist who disappeared in Africa in 1959, tells the story of his attempt to unravel the mystery of his father's ill-fated expedition.

Charles Judd is contemplating the turns his life has taken, while his wife struggles with the latest fish recipe. Two of their children are keeping it all together. Their daughter Juliet, is being released from prison in New York after a sentence for art theft. Now, all five members of the family try to come to terms with the return of Juliet.

The upper-crust, family-owned bank of Tubal + Co. in the City of London, is in trouble. It's not the first time in its three hundred and forty year history, but it may be the last. A secret sale is under way, and a number of facts need to be kept hidden from the regulators and major clients

Richie Cathar's father, Alaric, was a renaissance man: an intellectual, explorer, archaeologist and historian. He was also a man of the sixties: a fantasist, absentee parent and drug abuser. Alaric named his son after his hero, Richard, Coeur de Lion, but left him little when he died apart from conflicting memories. Now Richie, thirty-something, is in search of his own role. . . Following his father's trail to the Holy Land to research the Art of the Medieval Latin Kingdom, Richie's quest - to uncover the fate of Christianity's most sacred relic and the truth about his father - takes him from the high-table intrigue of Oxford to the imposing Crusader castles of Jordan, and into a passionate love affair with Noor, a Canadian-Arab journalist, whose fate will become entwined with Richie's own. Shot through with Justin Cartwright's trademark sharp observation and heartbreaking drama, Lion Heart is a thrilling, romantic and original work from one of our finest novelists.

A novel about politics, film, history and, above all, love by Booker Prize nominated author Justin Cartwright.

'A wonderfully observed novel which provides a rare outsider's glimpse of the quiet despair that lurks behind those bright, perfectly-formed American smiles' Literary Review

From Justin Cartwright, this is a novel of English life and family love.

Familiengeheimnisse und andere Abgründe Die Judds waren eine glückliche Familie mit erfolgreichen Kindern. Vor allem Tochter Juliet, promovierte Kunsthistorikerin und Expertin bei Christie's in New York, verkörperte den Erfolg schlechthin. Bis die Geschichte mit den gestohlenen Tiffanyglasfenstern passierte. Für ein gefälschtes Gutachten wanderte Juliet zwei Jahre ins Gefängnis. Nun wird sie entlassen, und das erste Wiedersehen der Familie steht bevor ... „Einer der besten Romanciers unserer Zeit“ (The Guardian)