Bøker av Simon Trowbridge

A history of the Aix-en-Provence Festival of opera and music, from its inception in 1948 to 2018. In this new study, the first book on the Aix Festival in English, Simon Trowbridge discusses artistic policy and describes each edition of the festival, with an analysis of opera productions and concerts. Aix is viewed within the context of French cultural politics. With colour illustrations.

London and Oxfordshire. When his stepfather dies, Joseph Root returns home for the first time in years. He is in the mood to settle scores. To reclaim his mother's love, he plots to ruin his stepbrother. To achieve his goal, he attempts to manipulate three young women. But where feelings of the heart are concerned, who is really being used? Can even a man like Joseph Root learn how to love?Paris during the Terror. A great artist who sits on the Revolutionary committee paints the portrait of the young wife of an aristocrat and then signs the warrant for his arrest.Paris during the Occupation. When her Jewish friend is arrested and deported, a pianist uses an encore as a form of protest. First published in Shenandoah Literary Magazine (vol.64, n.1).An English village, present day. One evening, an old woman, ready to end her life, asks a young care worker to hear and document her confession. During her youth she committed a terrible crime. In making her confession the past lives again.

The first 'Élodie Duquette' novel. The second novel in the sequence will be published in 2024.When the daughter of one of the most powerful businessmen in Bordeaux disappears in York, a young detective called Élodie Duquette is sent to York to join the investigating team. Together with her English colleague Tom Gould, she investigates Laura's life in York, London, and Bordeaux. The trail leads finally to an isolated villa on the Mediterranean coast.A government spin doctor, a French restaurateur, a lap dancing club manager, and a victim of a grooming gang, are people of interest, but Laura remains an enigmatic figure, a runaway ghost.Élodie has to deal with the unwanted attentions of Laura's father, Charles Roche, a man used to getting his way, and the anger and distress of Laura's uncooperating sister Camille. The tentative relationship that develops between Élodie and Gould is threatened by Roche's predatory and manipulative entitlement. Simon Trowbridge's concise, elegantly written modern detective story, in which sexual exploitation and moral ambiguity are the underlying themes, is also a tender love story.