John Trethewey: 10 books

In Book 3 of the trilogy The Baines Saga, hotel magnate Graf von Lemke finances the wedding of his adopted protgs Zav Baines and Judi Peake in Australia before flying with them to his hotel in Bavaria. Employed as hotel musicians under the names Giuseppe and Giulia Cantatore and acting as undercover...

While air accident expert Tim Kendall is being wrongly arrested in London for stealing his own car, in the scorching heat of the Pilbara, in the Australian outback, a prototype airship on a test flight, Zepp 1, is found parked in a remote region, intact, doors sealed, engines running and with no-one...

In this second novel of the Baines Saga trilogy, Baines and Judi Peake are now cruise ship musicians. As a scintillating, dazzling love affair develops, they encounter numerous eccentric and often bizarre passengers and events: a woman carrying a Koala bear, the own goal footballer who self-destructs...

eputy Commissioner Paul de Savigny of Geneva Airport Police is intent on destroying the pseudoreligious sect Albatross, which his teenage daughter joined and whom he has never seen since. A flight from Moscow, diverted from Zrich to Geneva, seems routine. But one of the passengers, Ben Lakey, is not....

A West Indian baby is discovered mid-Atlantic on the banana boat Il Mondo bound for the United Kingdom. Adopted in Lancashire and christened Dominique Alston, she grows up in 1950s Britain, a United Kingdom riddled with social, regional, and racial divides. Scarred in a racist attack at prep school,...

After an appalling education at Euterpe School (The House of Lunacy), Charles Baines moves to California, a successful director of television adverts. In 1974, at the height of its meteoric rise, The Temple of Sufferers and Joseph Priest arrive in San Francisco on their mission of converting souls....

In 1969, at the height of the Cold War, historians Adrian Coombe and Tulpe Vellum are cruising down the Rhine in search of medieval artefacts for their university. Eccentric Carolingian Judge von Metzenburg persuades them to take him immediately to the Black Forest Frankenrichter Courthouse in exchange...

Orchestral violinist Sebastian Martin is sacked by his orchestra for publicly ignoring the incompetent conductor, thus providing a brilliant solo. His life is invaded by a psychotic fabulist young actress who thrives on a diet of mendacity. Pyromaniacs like fire, kleptomaniacs like thieving . . ....

In 1964, British Railways closed numerous loss-making branch lines. The coastal Cornish village of Polmouth is cut off from the outside world and faces slow extinction. The villages only asset, Polmine Estate, potentially valuable building land, loses all value overnight. Historian and Latin teacher...

Deputy commissioner Paul de Savigny of Geneva Airport Police is intent on destroying the pseudo-religious sect Albatross, which his teenage daughter joined and whom he has never seen since. Coordinating the similar plight of families around the world, he receives a dossier recounting the experience...