The impending downfall of the Shah of Iran brings into play various Eastern and Western undercover operations in a drama involving men and women around the world

The Horse of Darius

CARTWRIGHT, Justin

Literature & Fiction

Macmillan Pub. Co.

A powerful elegy to the intimacies and idiocies of family, The Promise of Happiness tells the story of an apparently ordinary family on the cusp of an extraordinary moment: the return of the family's prodigal daughter, Juliet. Her release from an upstate New York prison throws the Judds, formerly of London but now scattered, back together. For her father, Juliet's conviction for a theft she may not have committed had proven the disintegration of a dying society. For her mother, it is a source not only of resentment, but bafflement. And for all of the Judds, it is a moment of both intense joy and confusion. As Justin Cartwright's novel opens, Juliet's parents await her release and return to England. Charlie, their capable and successful son, has been charged with collecting her and softening her reentry into the world, his own life unsettled meanwhile by his glamorous girlfriend's pregnancy and his ambivalence towards it. Sophie, the youngest and most rebellious sibling, is in the midst of getting her chaotic life (mostly) under control. And Juliet herself is wounded, the perfect daughter made scapegoat for a victimless crime. With searching perception and gentle humor, Justin Cartwright gradually reveals the inner struggles of the five disparate Judds as they grapple with their conflicting feelings for each other and the moral dilemmas that beset them, bringing them finally together in what is ultimately a celebration of the layers and universal oddness of the love of a family.

The Promise of Happiness

Genre Fiction

Thomas Dunne Books

Look at It This Way (Picador Books)

Contemporary

Picador

'A provocative novel about a disillusioned writer who travels to Africa to research a screenplay.  Cartwright tellingly contrasts the supposed savagery of the dark continent with the very real barbarism of Nazi Germany and the modern world'  Esquire 'Ambitious ...the book works well, as a story, as a compendium of reflections on race and nationhood and as a novel with a refined and distinctive narrative voice and one marvellously complete character, the old White Kenyan, Tom Fairfax ...an elegantly complex, unfailingly intelligent novel'  Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Spectator

Masai Dreaming

Look At It This Way

Macmillan

In Every Face I Meet

Sceptre

Leading the Cheers

Richard McAllister, a young government minister, is recuperating in South Africa after being attacked. Whilst out there, he is called back to London because his passionate affair with an actress has become public news. The love affair now becomes impossibly fraught amidst the fame and scandal.

Half in love

Interior

When a lion from London Zoo eats an unemployed city broker a train of events is set in motion. This story is set in 1990s London - in a city peopled by a rich and varied cast of characters, from the City, journalism, the criminal world, advertising, music hall and the East End.

Look at it this Way

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

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