Pictures on the Wall
- 264pages
- 10 heures de lecture
Hugo Charteris Ordre des livres
Hugo Charteris était un romancier écossais dont les œuvres explorent souvent les complexités des relations humaines et des attentes sociétales. Son écriture se caractérise par des observations perspicaces de la nature humaine et une compréhension aiguë de la psychologie des personnages. Charteris mêle avec maestria tension et esprit pour explorer les thèmes de l'amour, de la trahison et de la quête d'identité. Ses romans constituent de précieuses contributions à la littérature, offrant aux lecteurs des récits captivants et stimulants.
- 2024
- 2023
- 2023
This harrowing story of a man lost in his times, bewildered and anguished by both war and love, is a masterful portrayal of the human psyche at odds with itself.
- 2023
Picnic at Porokorro
- 262pages
- 10 heures de lecture
- 1992
The Tide Is Right
- 145pages
- 6 heures de lecture
This remarkable novel, suppressed in 1957 and published by Dalkey Archive for the first time, is concerned with a day in the life of a stagnant, aristocratic Scottish family in the 1950s. As the family prepares for its annual Christmas dance, old rivalries and tensions flare as John Harling arrives to visit his sister Mary, who has married Duncan Mackean, next in line to inherit the estate left by Colin Mackean, dead two years now, but very much alive in the memory of the current family, presided over by Alan Mackean and his wife Augustine ("Tin"). By the end of this nerve-racking day, John tells his sister that "this life, which you lead here, is incestuous" and that her husband Duncan "is in love with things he should have left--long ago. Soil, place, family, the past--roots... One must have courage to travel light today." That night, Duncan and Alan go out shooting; only one returns alive.
- 1964
