"It wont do. Its no fun at all being explorers with somebody running about seeing youre alright all the time. It spoils things. Were not children ... well, I suppose we are ... but you know what I mean. Its awful not knowing what it is theyre up to.
"It wont do. Its no fun at all being explorers with somebody running about seeing youre alright all the time. It spoils things. Were not children ....
The final book in a trilogy which includes The Boat in the Bay and The Broken Bell. The Pink House finds the children growing apart. Poppy must chose between painting and adventure as the others discover a lost lake in a secret valley. The decision to stay behind and begin her first painting changes her life for ever as, too late, she discovers the dreadful consequence of their discovery. Set in the South of France between the wars, the action is seen through the eyes of children confronting an adult world they never quite understand. At one level an adventure story, at another, a...
The final book in a trilogy which includes The Boat in the Bay and The Broken Bell. The Pink House finds the children growing apart. Poppy must chose ...
Oscar was one of those people cursed to live in interesting times; indeed, times interesting enough for a dozen normal lives. He was the architect of extraordinary - even heroic - deeds, yet they are completely forgotten now. He must be counted along with people who shaped the history of the 20th Century. Someone who played a key role in the allied victory in WWII, but is now completely unknown. A psychologist who worked with giants, someone who made crucial discoveries yet came to distrust the discipline and finally disown it. The history of Oscars move from brilliant physics graduate to...
Oscar was one of those people cursed to live in interesting times; indeed, times interesting enough for a dozen normal lives. He was the architect of ...
In the morning of Tuesday November 10, 1942, near a small village in SW France, the scheduled pickup for a Special Operations Executive agent goes terribly wrong. Alex and Justine, agents with a life expectancy measured in weeks, find themselves entangled in a desperate project they never fully understand. They are also lovers. Trained to lie to their wartime masters and to the enemy, they must contemplate lying to each other. A Time to Tell Lies, Alan Kennedy's fifth novel, continues the story begun in Lucy, described by Deborah Swallow, Marit Rausing Director, Courtauld Institute of Art,...
In the morning of Tuesday November 10, 1942, near a small village in SW France, the scheduled pickup for a Special Operations Executive agent goes ter...
Lucy is a painter. She has everything: fame, money and reputation. She also has Oscar. At least, he has always been there. One fine day, she will do something about that. It was, as she says, hardly a love affair, more a kind of marriage. Perhaps, even war-torn France is safe enough on the Oscar front. But Lucy is deceiving herself. Set before and after the second world war in London, Edinburgh, Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Dundee and a remote village in war-time France, two painters struggle to come to terms with the casual brutality of war. A love story. Alan Kennedy's fourth novel - a masterly...
Lucy is a painter. She has everything: fame, money and reputation. She also has Oscar. At least, he has always been there. One fine day, she will do s...
