Bøger af Brian Jarman

Welsh farmer's son Glyn is drawn into a glamorous but dangerous world when film star Nia Barry and her son Luke move into the old mansion down the hill in the summer of '69. He discovers jazz, art and cocktails and soon realises he's falling for Luke's new girlfriend Sian. Secrets from Nia's past begin to threaten the close relationships they have built up and a tragic death brings them to an end when Nia moves back to New York. Years later Glyn is a journalist in London. He interviews Nia and discovers the most terrible secret of them all. He must now try to come to terms with what happened all those years ago.

Two best friends had a fight and haven't seen each other for years: Griff, in retired seculsion in his Italian hideaway, and David, a tabloid photographer in Clapham. Armed with a copy of Zen and The Art of Motorcycle maintenance, David sets off on a road trip of his own. He tracks Griff down but before they meet he's knocked off his bike in a hit-and-run. Griff is the prime suspect. Now it's not just a question of whether they can make it up, but whether David will live.

Al feels his life his over when his wife coolly dumps him one night in Tiger Bay. In desperation he moves to New York and joins a Bridge club where he forms an unlikely partnership with the autocratic Greta. He comes to regard her as the rudest woman he's ever met. Her arch enemy is the dashingly dishevelled Marco, who urges Al to ditch Greta and bets him he can't find one good thing about her. Al clings to the belief that she must have one redeeming feature. He searches in vain. It's only when Greta dies and mysteriously wills Al her diaries that he gets the chance to delve into her past and unlock her secret.