Merivel: A Man of His Time

by Rose Tremain
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Merivel: A Man of His Time, Rose Tremain

The major new historical novel from Orange Prize-winning Rose Tremain, set in Restoration England and starring the world's favourite courtier, Robert Merivel

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  • Trade Paperback
    $29.95 RRP
    ISBN: 9780701185213
    Published: 03/09/2012
    Imprint: Chatto & Windus
    Extent: 352 pages
  • Hardback
    $49.95 RRP
    ISBN: 9780701185206
    Published: 15/09/2012
    Imprint: Chatto & Windus
    Extent: 352 pages
  • EBook
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    ISBN: 9781448138586
    Published: 06/09/2012
    Imprint: Vintage Digital
    Extent: 352 pages
  • Paperback
    $19.95 RRP
    ISBN: 9780099548430
    Published: 02/09/2013
    Imprint: Vintage
    Extent: 352 pages
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Get ready to laugh, prepare to weep -- Robert Merivel is back in Rose Tremain's magical sequel to Restoration.

Robert Merivel, courtier to Charles II is no longer a young man -- but off he goes to France in search of the Sun King and to Switzerland in pursuit of a handsome woman. Versailles -- all glitter in front and squalor behind -- is a fiasco: Merivel is forced to share an attic (and a chamber pot) with a Dutch clock-maker while attempting to sustain himself on peas and jam and water from the fountains. Switzerland, by contrast, is perhaps a little too comfortable. But the lady, a clever botanist, leads Merivel deliciously on -- until her jealous husband bursts in with duelling pistols...
As he narrates the picaresque journey, Merivel gets into all sorts of scrapes; he is torn between enjoying himself and making something of his life, through medicine and the study of science. He tries to be diligent, but constantly backslides into laugher and laziness. A big-hearted rogue who loves his daughter, his country house and the English King ... Merivel is Everyman -- and he speaks directly to us down the centuries.

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Oct 29

There's More to Paper, I'm Sure of It

by Brett Osmond on 29 October 2012

There's More to Paper, I'm Sure of It 0 comments

On a recent holiday I read four great books; two in print and two as ebooks. I love reading ebooks and choose this format primarily these days

Jan 24

What is The Indigo Sky about?

by Alison Booth on 24 January 2011

What is The Indigo Sky about? 0 comments

I think a lot of writers have difficulty answering this sort of question about their work because there are so many layers in most novels.  For example, I’ve just finished reading the wonderful book by Rose Tremain, a writer whom I greatly admire, entitled Music and Silence.  This is a historical novel set in the years 1629 to 1630 at the Danish court, and it is written from many different perspectives. ...

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"Surely one of the most versatile novelists writing today" - Daily Express

"Vivid, original and always engaging" - The Times

"Rose Tremain writes comedy that can break your heart" - Literary Review

"It's both confronting and moving, and threaded with a heavy melancholy at all times. While the plot might sound like engaging Restoration romp, to dismiss it as such does a massive disservice to this wonderful book." - Jan Fisher, Northern Weekely, Melbourne

"Funny, tragic Merivel is almost impossible to resist, a lovably flower character who is both selfish and thoughtful, rakish and tender. You don't have to have read Restoration, as Tremain revisits the key points." - CH, Herald Sun, Melbourne

"This is an engaging book with a loveable, roguish main character, the perfect standalone novel, or a magnificent companion to Tremain's Man Booker shortlisted Restoration. A wonderful piece of storytelling." - Eilidh Gilritchie, Sunday Mail, Brisbane

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