JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT

A tale of deception, misunderstanding, and betrayal set between modern-day Africa and Nazi-occupied France.

The venerable bank of Tubal & Co is in trouble. It's not the first time in its three-hundred-year history - it was bailed out by Rothschilds' in 1847 - but this time will be the last. A sale is under way, and a number of rather important facts need to be kept hidden, especially from any potential buyer. Hundreds of millions of pounds are being diverted - temporarily - to shore it up, masterminded by the bank's chairman, Julian Trevelyan-Tubal. His aging father Sir Henry would be horrified, but fortunately he is in the early stages of dementia, writing admonitory letters that all say the same thing to Julian from the sunny climes of Antibes. His letters instruct his son to stick to the time-honoured traditions of the bank, and, indeed, had his son taken his advice the bank might still be solvent. Great families have all sorts of secrets, though, and this one is no exception. And whether they are lovers, old partners, or retainers who resent not being part of the family, they have a nasty habit of turning awkward. When an alimony payment from the bank to an abandoned husband, the penniless, quixotic director (currently putting on Thomas the Tank Engine, hoping to woo Daniel Day-Lewis for his new playscript), a trickle of consequences turns into a tsunami of potential catastrophe for the family, the bank and all who sail in her. Other People's Money is both a subtle thriller and an acutely delineated portrait of a world and a class. Justin Cartwright manipulates our sympathies with masterly ease, unwinding the story with gentle satire, and, as ever, acute and beautifully phrased insights into the eccentricities and weaknesses of the human condition.

The Trevelyan family is in grave trouble Their private bank of Tubal & Co is in on the verge of collapsing It's not the first time in its three-hundred-and-forty year history, but it may be the l

Un ingenioso y humorístico retrato del mundo de las altas nanzas en el punto culminante del pinchazo de la burbuja bancaria, a través de una familia de rancio abolengo propietaria de la banca Tubal

History ...is seldom able to convey the essence of being human'' Frank McAllister has become wealthy in England, where he has lived for thirty years. He has a house in Notting Hill, a house in the New Forest, and a house near Cape Town. But more and more he feels alienated in England. As the book opens, he is preparing to go to South Africa with his lover, Nellie. He is also waiting anxiously for his daughter, Lucinda, to arrive from California, where she has been in rehab. Frank is a descendant of the Boer leader, Piet Retief, who was murdered by the Zulu king Dingane, along with all his followers, in 1838. He has been an icon of Afrikaners ever since. Frank''s Afrikaner cousin, Jaco, has become moderately famous on YouTube for having faced down a huge white shark. He is now in America, where he has joined the Scientologists. His chaotic and violent life spills over on to Frank. He is drawn into a world of violence and delusion that is to threaten the family. Justin Cartwright possesses that rarest of novelist''s skills - the ability to create fiction which is intensely serious but which also vividly encompasses the absurdity and comedy of life. Up Against the Night is a subtle, brilliant novel about South Africa, its beautiful, superbly evoked landscape, its violent past and its uncertain present. Justin Cartwright is a descendant of Piet Retief.

Un apasionante juego de contrastes y paralelismos, de encuentros y desencuentros que aúna suspense, aventura y reflexión. Esta es la historia del encuentro de dos mundos, dos épocas, dos continentes, dos civilizaciones, dos personas.Perseguido por un sueño recurrente en el que aparecen los masais, Tim Curtiz, periodista norteamericano afincado en Londres, viaja a Africa para escribir el guion de una pelicula sobre Claudia Cohn-Casson, una hermosa y enigmatica antropologa judia que en la primera mitad del siglo estudio a la tribu. Curtiz sigue las huellas de su personaje a traves de la memoria de ancianos que la conocieron, de los masais que tanto la fascinaron..., y poco a poco va descubriendo los entresijos de su vida.La novela se estructura como un apasionante juego de contrastes y paralelismos, de encuentros y desencuentros, en el que se entremezclan los problemas conyugales de Curtiz, el tragico destino de Claudia, acosada por los nazis a su regreso a Francia en plena guerra, los ritos y leyendas de los masais, los preparativos del rodaje de la pelicula y los escarceos sexuales del productor con una seductora actriz francesa que lucha por conseguir el papel protagonista y por ocultar ciertas zonas oscuras de su personalidad...Cartwright combina en su narracion la conradiana busqueda de un personaje fascinante, el redentor viaje a las raices de lo primitivo y el combate contra el olvido de un pasado abyecto y brutal; y lo hace con una prosa solida y elegante, aunando suspense, aventura y reflexion.

«La novela satírica más divertida y aguda acerca de Inglaterra que he leído en muchos años» (Robert Carver, The Observer). Tim Curtiz, un escritor americano voluntariamente exiliado en Londres, vive

Set against the background of Nelson Mandelas release, IN EVERY FACE I MEET is the story of Anthony Northleach, and one intense, comic and horrifying day in his life.

On 20 July l944 Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped death when an assassin''s bomb failed to kill him in his Eastern command, the Wolf''s Lair. The conspirators were hunted down and hanged from meat-hooks, and their executions were filmed. Among them was Axel von Gottberg. Sixty years after his death, von Gottberg''s close friend and now a legendary Oxford professor, Elya Mendel, leaves a legacy of papers and letters to a former student, Conrad Senior. Senior becomes obsessed with what they reveal, but as he becomes more and more involved with the past his own relationship with his wife Francine begins to fall apart. The friendship between Mendel and von Gottberg is fatally undermined by a romantic rivalry when two mysterious cousins, Rosamund and Elizabeth, enter their lives in a richly imagined pre-war Jerusalem. But it is finally destroyed when von Gottberg returns to Germany. Mendel, who is Jewish, believes him to be a Nazi, and alerts the Allies to his doubts about his friend, doubts which torment him after von Gottberg is garrotted. Conrad is desperate to find a film Hitler had made of these appalling executions, for reasons he himself cannot fully understand.The Song Before It Is Sung is a remarkable tapestry of passion, ideas, frailty, courage and humanity, spanning Oxford in the 1930s, pre-war Prussia and contemporary Britain. It is a profound novel that addresses the nature of friendship and what it means to be human, and it is the work of a master novelist.

Ju-Ju Briggs has just been released from prison in upstate New York. Now she''s returning home to England. An art expert with an immaculate education, Ju-Ju is no typical criminal. Nor was her crime - the theft of a Tiffany-glass window from a Brooklyn cemetary - a straightforward one. Some might call it grave-robbing, others an act of conservation. For Ju-Ju it was an act of love. In their Cotswold house, Ju-Ju''s parents are preparing a welcome party. This is no simple matter either. Daphne holds untold resentment against their daughter, the ''golden girl'', Charles is ashamed. Ju-Ju''s younger brother Charlie, and sister Sophie, both of whom have much to conceal, also have their own fears...As the family struggles to come to terms with Ju-Ju''s crime, secrets are shed and emotions reach their pitch. No one will leave this party unchanged.

Richard McAllister, a young minister in the government, has temporarily left the Cabinet while recovering from being stabbed by a thug at a football match. He has decided, while recuperating, to go to South Africa to research a relative and his account of the horse in the Boer War. While in Mafeking, he is called back to London because his passionate affair with an actress has become public knowledge. From that moment, the love affair becomes almost impossibly fraught. The press hound them, the government spin doctors try to suppress all news and Joanna s husband becomes very vindictive. The lovers are parted, and Joanna goes to America.| | This is a novel about contemporary politics, the power of film, the nature of history and above all about two people caught hopelessly in love, subject to the stresses of fame and scandal. It is an exceptional achievement.