Вручение 19 июня 2011 г.

Страна: Великобритания Место проведения: Brewin Dolphin Borders Book Festival в доме Вальтера Скотта в Шотландии Дата проведения: 19 июня 2011 г.

Историческое произведение

Лауреат
Андреа Леви 4.3

Действие происходит в 1820-е годы на Ямайке.

You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed. July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity and it is her life that is the subject of this tale. She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831, and she was present when slavery was declared no more. My son says I must convey how the story tells also of July's mama Kitty, of the negroes that worked the plantation land, of Caroline Mortimer the white woman who owned the plantation and many more persons besides - far too many for me to list here. But what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse. Perhaps, my son suggests, I might write that it is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it. All this he wishes me to pen so the reader can decide if this is a novel they might care to consider. Cha, I tell my son, what fuss-fuss. Come, let them just read it for themselves.
Дэвид Митчелл 4.3

Конец XVIII века, Япония.

1799 год. Молодой голландский клерк Якоб де Зут приплывает в Дэдзиму — голландскую факторию в Нагасаки. Ему необходимо заработать деньги — отец его возлюбленной, Анны, не дает согласия на брак дочери с бедняком. Якоб уверен, что скоро вернется на родину, станет мужем Анны и годы, проведенные в Японии, будет вспоминать как небольшое приключение. Но судьба распорядилась иначе...
С
Tom McCarthy 0.0

Начало 20-го века, Европа.

Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, C is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up amid the noise and silence with his brilliant but troubled older sister, Sophie: an intense sibling relationship that stays with him as he heads off into an equally troubled larger world. After a fling with a nurse at a Bohemian spa, Serge serves in World War I as a radio operator for reconnaissance planes. When his plane is shot down, Serge is taken to a German prison camp, from which he escapes. Back in London, he’s recruited for a mission to Cairo on behalf of the shadowy Empire Wireless Chain.
Кристофер Сэнсом 4.4

16 век, Англия.

Мэтью Шардлейк не похож на героя: стареющий горбун-адвокат, повидавший в жизни слишком много зла, чтобы сохранить прежнюю любовь к истине и веру в справедливость. Но уходить на покой ему еще рано: как не взяться за дело, если расследовать его просит сама королева? Дождливым летом 1545 года служитель закона отправляется в родовое гнездо джентльмена, подозреваемого в злоупотреблении правами опекунства. Но, прибыв на место, он понимает, что присвоение имущества сирот – далеко не самая страшная из тайн этого семейства. С каждой новой находкой все больше жалея, что взялся за это дело, адвокат погружается в прошлое людей с камнями вместо сердец...
Andrew Williams 0.0

Россия, покушение на Александра II.

Palace Square, St Petersburg, 187. A shot rings out. As cossacks tackle the assassin to the ground, no one notices a beautiful young woman slip away. Russia is alive with revolution and Tsar Alexander ll's secret police will stop at nothing to unmask the conspirators. For Dr Frederick Hadfield, favourite of the Anglo-Russian gentry, these are dangerous times. Drawn into a desperate undercover game of plot and counterplot, he risks all in a perilous double life.
Joseph O'Connor 0.0

Начало 20 века, Ирландия.

Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a girl of the inner city tenements, dreaming of stardom in America. She has dozens of admirers but in the backstage of her life there is a secret. Her lover, John Synge, is a troubled genius, the son of a once prosperous landowning family, a poet of fiery language and tempestuous passions. Yet his life is hampered by convention and by the austere and God-fearing mother with whom he lives. Scarred by a childhood of loneliness and severity he has long been ill, but he loves to walk the wild places of Ireland. The affair, sternly opposed by friends and family, is turbulent, sometimes cruel, often tender. Many years later, an old woman makes her way across London on the morning after a hurricane. Christmas is coming. As she wanders past bombsites and through the city's forlorn beauty, a snowdrift of memories and lost desires seems to swirl. She has twice been married: once widowed, once divorced, but an unquenchable passion for life has kept her afloat as her dazzling career has faded. A story of love's commitment, of partings and reconciliations, of the courage involved in living on nobody else's terms, Ghost Light is a profoundly moving and ultimately uplifting novel.