Justin Cartwright Knihy

Románový vhled do horních vrstev britské společnosti, tradiční anglické bankéřské rodiny, kterou sice také semele ekonomická krize, ale rodina to díky svému vlivu a kontaktům na politiky uhraje ve svůj prospěch. Starobylá banka Tubal & Co. má možná v nepořádku aktiva a zahardovala si s důvěrou, kterou do ní vložila klientela, ale přece jen tradiční anglická značka, spjatá s historií, solidností a noblesou, pořád něco znamená. Kdo ví – třeba o ni projeví zájem fi nanční šíbři ve Spojených státech? Těm se však pozlacené bulíky na nos věšet nedají...

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.

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)