Rose Tremain

Mar 15, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Rose Tremain |Flora Bowen

The Civil Service has long been regarded as a noble career, attracting ambitious graduates into life-long work at the heart of government. And yet in recent years, applications to its flagship graduate programme – the competitive “Fast Stream” – have plummeted. In 2023, numbers were the lowest since 2015. While some 64,697 applications were made in 2020, Telegraph analysis has found that only 26,899 hopefuls put their names forward in 2023.

Dec 30, 2023 | telegraph.co.uk | Rose Tremain

The holiday-let was called The Elms. Charlie had said to David, “Good name, then: dead trees.” But David had said to Charlie, “Don’t stress. It’s in nice countryside. And with a sauna hut.” And Charlie had said, “OK that’s huge. Already imagining the fluffy white towels.”Old friends since university, 50 now and married, with noisy teenage daughters, they’d resolved to spend this one New Year together, away from their families, away from the city jobs which cramped their minds.

Oct 10, 2023 | telegraph.co.uk | Anita Singh |Rose Tremain

A Booker-nominated writer who included a trans child in one of her novels has said she would not be able to do so today as authors are being “boxed in” by their experiences. Rose Tremain, author of Restoration, said some of her bestselling novels would be unlikely to make it into print today. She wrote about the experiences of a trans child in Sacred Country, published in 1992, researching the subject by speaking to people with gender dysphoria.

Sep 30, 2023 | dailymail.co.uk | Rose Tremain

The other week I published my 16th novel, Absolutely and Forever. Primarily it explores one of the most popular subjects in the history of human life: young romantic love and heartbreak. In 1950s England, my heroine Marianne Clifford is only 15 when she falls for 18-year-old Simon Hurst, ‘the cleverest boy in Berkshire’.

Feb 13, 2023 | telegraph.co.uk | Louisa Clarence-Smith |Rose Tremain

A leading independent girls’ school once attended by the actress Sienna Miller named its theatre after a fraudster following a £250,000 donation, a court has heard. Francis Holland School, next to Regent’s Park in London, accepted the donation in 2005 from Achilleas Kallakis, 54, who duped banks out of hundreds of millions of pounds between 2003 and 2008.