Roland Vernon
Annabel Merullo - Books
After a brief career as a professional singer, Roland Vernon settled in the countryside, dividing his time between writing and managing his own small rural business. He is the author of several biographical books about musicians, and Star in the East, a biography of the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti. His début novel, A Dark Enchantment, won the Daily Mail First Novel Award and is published by Transworld. He lives in Somerset with his wife and three sons.
His current novel, The Maestro's Voice, was published by Transworld on 15th April. A historical novel set in New York in 1926 it tells the tale of a famous tenor, Rocco Campobello, who rejects his glittering career to return to his home city of Naples, to confront his past.
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Roland Vernon's CV
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THE MAESTRO'S VOICE
Publisher UK: Transworld
ISBN:
Rights Details: Translation
Naples, 1926.
Rocco Campobello, a fabulously accomplished operatic tenor at the peak of his powers, one of the most famous and loved entertainers in the world, is convalescing after suffering a life-threatening collapse. He emerges from the crisis a changed man. Ignoring the expectations of his following and the frustration of his glamorous American wife, Campobello sheds ambition and celebrity, and begins to unearth some painful and sinister ghosts from his early life back in Naples.
But he cannot extricate himself from the clutches of a powerful Neapolitan crime chieftain who has overseen his progress for years, and who now, in liaison with Campobellos wife, will stop at nothing to re-launch the ailing tenor's career. As Campobello discovers a miraculous new life through the shadows of his past, he feels the anger of the criminal underworld rise against him, and is compelled to hatch a dangerous counter plot to extricate himself from his spotlight as the world's greatest tenor.
Moving between the palatial environment of a 1920s superstar in New York and the impoverished, crime-ridden backstreets of Naples The Maestro's Voice weaves a path through a world of celebrity glamour, ruthless violence and human innocence.
A DARK ENCHANTMENT
Publisher UK: TRANSWORLD
ISBN:
In 1869, Godwin Tudor, a young English photographer, sets out to taste the classical beauty and exotic wilderness of Greece. Whilst in Athens he encounters a charismatic British landowner, the maverick Edgar Brooke, whose vast estate dominates Pyroxenia, an island north of Attica.
Although Brooke is ill-mannered, has many political enemies and is branded a social outcast, Godwin is intrigued by him, and sets out to visit. Whilst staying on the island Godwin finds himself enchanted by the breathtaking landscape and captivated by Brooke’s capricious young daughter Lydia. Suddenly embroiled in a whirlwind of passion and chicanery, Godwin inadvertently finds himself at the centre of a dangerous political conspiracy.
As events spiral out of control, Godwin does his best to play the diplomat in a terrifying international incident. His life hangs in the balance and all the while his heart aches for the girl he has left behind in the spellbound forests of Pyroxenia . . .
A haunting tale of love, adventure and intrigue, A Dark Enchantment marks the début of an exciting new storyteller.
STAR IN THE WEST: Krishnamurti - The Invention of a Messiah
Publisher UK: ST. MARTIN'S PRESS
ISBN: 978-0312
INTRODUCING STRAVINSKY
Publisher UK: BELITHA PRESS
ISBN: 978-1855
INTRODUCING VERDI
Publisher UK: BELITHA PRESS
ISBN: 978-1855
INTRODUCING CHOPIN
Publisher UK: SILVER BURDETT PRESS
ISBN: 978-0382
INTRODUCING VIVALDI
Publisher UK: BELITHA
ISBN: 978-1855
INTRODUCING GERSHWIN
Publisher UK: BELITHA PRESS
ISBN: 978-1855
INTRODUCING BACH
Publisher UK: BELITHA PRESS
ISBN: 978-1855
INTRODUCING BEETHOVEN
Publisher UK: BELITH PRESS
ISBN: 978-185