Emma Tennant

On the weekend of October 17 1981, a party of girls who had set out on a sponsored walk from Beaminster became separated from their leader and disappeared into the worst fog ever recorded on the west coast of Dorset. For days search parties of anxious parents and police failed to trace the girls. Those that returned, finally, could give no coherent account of their strange exile from home.Lord of the Flies was a book of this kind.ObserverA compulsively readable work of the imagination. Elaine Feinstein, TimesA delicate interweaving of Hansel and Gretel, Goldilocks, and Good Queen Bess... its somber moods and haunting melodies give it a power beyond the range of mere intellect.Literary Review

Part detective story, part analysis of a writers urge to place real people in his fiction, this is a Christmas fireside tale that examines the horrors of The Turn of the Screw while revealing those of today. We read Henry Jamess unfinished tale, The Beautiful Child, with its chilling depiction of cruelty and neglect, which he abandoned in 1902. And we learn about the terrifying scandal behind Jamess inability to proceed with his story of a couple who beseech a fashionable artist to paint the child they never had - a scandal involving the alcoholic Mr and Mrs Smith who had served James for many years. Will the chief guest at a house party, an English professor, solve the mystery of the hauntings at Jamess home, Lamb House, in Rye? This book fills out the unfinished story and ends on a note of terror that would surely have been appreciated by the master himself.

Black Marina, set on an island paradise in the Caribbean, tells a story of great force and poignancy partly inspired by the events surrounding the invasion of Grenada in 1983.Holly Baker, an English woman, came to St James during her carefree days of bar-hopping in the 1960s. Somehow she never managed to get away. Now, her loyalties fluctuating, she is caught up in the advanced stages of a drama both personal and political - and which embodies the conflicts inherent in this small, dangerously placed society. As the island and its visitors prepare for Christmas, events that were seeded at the time of Hollys arrival on St James finally blow up into a violent and chilling debacle.A gentle and poetic style contains a hot, explosive story.VogueWitty and tragic.ListenerFaber Finds is devoted to restoring to readers a wealth of lost or neglected classics and authors of distinction. The range embraces fiction, non-fiction, the arts and childrens books. For a full list of available titles visit www.faberfinds.co.uk. To join the dialogue with fellow book-lovers please see our blog, www.faberfindsblog.co.uk.

You cant imagine what its like when your youth comes back - and beauty, and more... I found out that if I took the pills I could turn - just like that - into the person I had been. Yes, into me! Eliza! Where had I gone? Who had I been?Emma Tennants brilliant re-imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson tells of an impoverished single mother at the bitter end of her tether, who finds dark pharmaceutical means to revive her looks and career ambitions. This splitting of personality, however, leads to disintegration and murder.Fascinating.Financial TimesBrilliant... Wittily worked out, perceptive of modern m ores and values.Times Literary SupplementReminiscent of Muriel Spark at her very darkest and very best.Scotland on Sunday

...I met the sad menopausee and offered her, at the flick of a switch, a return of beauty, youth, and desire. And - after all, Im no stinge-merchant - power and money as well. Why not? If a man, such as Dr Faustus, was offered such commodities by myself... why not a woman, in this age of equality?Emma Tennants ingenious modern-day reworking of the Faust legend describes a young womans dark discovery of just what befell her kindly long-lost grandmother.Brilliant. Penelope Fitzgerald, Evening StandardAn elegant and bitter story... an angry diagnosis of consumerism, pollution, wealth, poverty and war...Times Literary SupplementIt is a masterpiece. Or, as the Devil himself might say, one hell of a book.Daily Mail

A House in Corfu is the story of one of the most beautiful places on earth, still astonishingly unspoilt, on the west coast of Corfu. In the early 1960s Emma Tennant's parents, on a cruise, spotted a magical bay and decided to build a house there. This book is the story of that house, Rovinia, set in 42 hectares of land above the bay where legend has it Ulysses was shipwrecked. It is also the story of the people of Rovinia - Maria, miraculous cook and presiding spirit of the house, and her husband Thodoros, as well as the inhabitants of the local village.

Adele, the daughter of a celebrated Parisian actress, is a homesick, forlorn eight-year-old when first brought to Thornfield Hall by Edward Fairfax Rochester, her mothers former lover. Lonely and ill at ease in the unfamiliar English countryside, she longs to return to the glitter of Paris . . . and to the mother who has been lost to her. But a small ray of sunshine brightens her eternal gloom when a stranger arrives to care for hera serious yet intensely loving young governess named Jane Eyreeven as young Adeles curiosity leads her deeper into the shadowy manor, toward the dark and terrible secret that is locked away in a high garret. . . . Includes fascinating in-depth background material about Charlotte Bronte and the Jane Eyre legacy

"El pasado y el presente se encuentran en esta atractiva novela de intriga, oportuna y, con tanta frecuencia, inquietante."Antonia FraserLa amante secreta de Adolf Hitler, miembro de la aristocracia britanica, dio a luz una niña que le fue arrebatada a su madre nada mas nacer y entregada en adopcion. Aunque la niña crecera sin conocer la verdad sobre sus origenes, esto no impide que los seguidores de la herencia de Hitler, diseminados por diversos paises, urdan un plan para encontrarla, con la idea de utilizar a la descendiente del dictador en su oscuro plan para reconquistar Europa.Aqui hace su aparicion Jean Hastie, una mujer inteligente y llena de recursos, que trabaja para el Patrimonio Nacional Escoces como especialista en historia del arte. Cuando su amiga Monica es asesinada en Londres, Jean abandona su querida Escocia para investigar su muerte y rescatar a la adolescente nieta de Monica, Mel, que en opinion de la policia es la principal sospechosa del asesinato. La joven ha desaparecido en la zona mas devastada de la periferia de Londres sin dejar rastro. Contra todas las evidencias, Jean esta convencida de su inocencia y de que realmente la chica corre peligro. Pero, ¿por que ambas estarian implicadas en una trama a todas luces tan siniestra?Un fascinante intriga politica que especula con la...

"El pasado y el presente se encuentran en esta atractiva novela de intriga, oportuna y, con tanta frecuencia, inquietante."Antonia Fraser La amante secreta de Adolf Hitler, miembro de la aristocracia britanica, dio a luz una niña que le fue arrebatada a su madre nada mas nacer y entregada en adopcion. Aunque la niña crecera sin conocer la verdad sobre sus origenes, esto no impide que los seguidores de la herencia de Hitler, diseminados por diversos paises, urdan un plan para encontrarla, con la idea de utilizar a la descendiente del dictador en su oscuro plan para reconquistar Europa.Aqui hace su aparicion Jean Hastie, una mujer inteligente y llena de recursos, que trabaja para el Patrimonio Nacional Escoces como especialista en historia del arte. Cuando su amiga Monica es asesinada en Londres, Jean abandona su querida Escocia para investigar su muerte y rescatar a la adolescente nieta de Monica, Mel, que en opinion de la policia es la principal sospechosa del asesinato. La joven ha desaparecido en la zona mas devastada de la periferia de Londres sin dejar rastro. Contra todas las evidencias, Jean esta convencida de su inocencia y de que realmente la chica corre peligro. Pero, ¿por que ambas estarian implicadas en una trama a todas luces tan siniestra? Un fascinante intriga politica que especula con la historia y personajes del fascismo ingles y, nunca mejor dicho, con sus flirteos con el nazismo (especialmente con el caso de Unity Mitford, "la novia britanica del Fuhrer"). En esta trepidante aventura, escrita con sutil ironia y una excelente ambientacion, homenaje al mejor Hitchcock y a la Miss Marple de Agatha Christie, estas dos reconocidas escritoras trazan un escenario tan cercano a la realidad actual y tan oportuno que pone los pelos de punta.