JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT

* WINNER OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN M-NET LITERARY AWARD *A tale of deception, misunderstanding, and betrayal set between modern-day Africa and Nazi-occupied France.Haunted by his dreams of the Masai, Tim Curtiz journeys to East Africa to research and write a screenplay about the enigmatic Claudia Cohn-Casson, a French anthropologist who studied the Masai in the late 1930s and was then deported to Auschwitz upon her return to Paris.It is like a little death to put this book downTimes Literary Supplement

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

David Cross est un homme secret. Lorsque sa femme Nancy était encore en vie, il lui cachait tout un pan de son existence. Maintenant quelle est morte, il doit dissimuler son nouveau bonheur à ses enf

In Justin Cartwright fourth, immaculately-written novel, a journalist and filmmaker tells the story of his attempt to unravel the mystery of his fathers ill-fated expedition to Africa in 1959.Dodging the vested interests of the Ngwenya clan, his wayward wife Magdan and the colonial dinosaur Jumbo Munroe, the narrator embarks on a quasi-biblical quest . . . a tale that hits the ground running and continues at a vigorous pace. This is one of the shrewdest and most diverting novels about Africa one could hope to read.Daily Telegraph

La vénérable banque Tubal & Co est en danger. Julian Trevelyan-Tubal a fragilisé létablissement en investissant dans des crédits toxiques. Son père, qui a toujours refusé que sa banque se transfo

* The Whitbread-shortlisted novel from the bestselling author of THE PROMISE OF HAPPINESS *Brilliant, dazzling, unsettling; subtle and haunting; complex and multi-layered; deeply moving - Independent on SundayCartwright is a brilliant observer and writes extremely well . . . [he] has produced an X-ray of modern mans soul - Evening StandardA motorcycle messenger goes into a small park in London to paint the words White Lightning on the tank of his bike. This is the beginning of an extraordinary novel. It is told over the space of a few months, and in these few months one mans whole life - his failures, his successes, his longing for peace and fulfilment, his loves and his tragedies - are recounted. These memories include his film Suzi Crispin, Night Nurse, and - the darkest moment - the death of his son, which has haunted him.He inherits a small amount of money and buys a rundown farm in South Africa, where he dreams of creating an Arcadia. On the farm is a captive baboon, Piet, who becomes startlingly involved in his new life. He also has a love affair with a local woman, and becomes hauntingly involved with an African family of squatters. All the while the narrator contemplates his own life back in England and so the novel is also a sharp commentary on what Englishness means. This is a novel about the human enterprise. It is surprising, tender, funny and utterly original.

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.

Le père cherche un sens aux détours de son existence. La mère cuisine à corps perdu. Les enfants affrontent leurs propres inquiétudes (incertitudes, addictions) et l’éprouvant retour de prison de leu

La vénérable banque Tubal & Co est en danger. Julian Trevelyan-Tubal a fragilisé létablissement en investissant dans des crédits toxiques. Son père, qui a toujours refusé que sa banque se transfo

Le père cherche un sens aux détours de son existence. La mère cuisine à corps perdu. Les enfants affrontent leurs propres inquiétudes (incertitudes, addictions) et l’éprouvant retour de prison de leu

* WINNER OF A WHITBREAD NOVEL AWARD *A rich portrayal of small-town life with wonderfully evoked characters and beautifully observed writing.Dan Silas returns to America for his high school reunion where he makes some unexpected discoveries. His former girlfriend tells him that her daughter was his child and Dans oldest friend has suffered a breakdown and now believes himself to be the reincarnation of an Indian chief. In an attempt to make sense of these disturbing facts, Dan digs further into their lives, with both tragic and comic results.A wonderfully observed novel which provides a rare outsiders glimpse of the quiet despair that lurks behind those bright, perfectly-formed American smilesLiterary Review

David Cross est un homme secret. Lorsque sa femme Nancy était encore en vie, il lui cachait tout un pan de son existence. Maintenant quelle est morte, il doit dissimuler son nouveau bonheur à ses enf

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 T

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.

The satirical English novel of the decadeObserverFrom the moment an unemployed City broker is devoured by an escapee from the Zoo, we are embarked upon a dazzling journey through 90s London. A city peopled by a rich and varied cast of characters with intriguingly different backgrounds: from the City, to journalism, the criminal underworld, advertising, music hall and the East End... while lurking in the background is nemesis, in the shape of a hungry lion.Does for London what Bonfire of the Vanities did for New York.The Sunday Times