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Justin Cartwright (born 1945) is a British novelist.

He was born in South Africa, where his father was the editor of the Rand Daily Mail newspaper, and was educated there, in the United States and at Trinity College, Oxford. Cartwright has worked in advertising and has directed documentaries, films and television commercials. He managed election broadcasts, first for the Liberal Party and then the SDP-Liberal Alliance during the 1979, 1983 and 1987 British general elections. For his work on election broadcasts, Cartwright was appointed an MBE.

Cartwright lives in London with his wife, Penny, and two sons.

Available Books by Justin Cartwright

	Other People's Money Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781408821695 RRP: $19.99 A gripping, satirical and acutely observed story of our time. The Trevelyan family is in grave trouble. Their private bank of Tubal + Co. is in on the verge of collapsing. It's not the first time in its three-hundred-and-forty year history, but it may be the last. A sale is under way, and a number of important facts need to be kept hidden, not only from the public, but also from Julian Trevel...
	To Heaven By Water Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781408801031 RRP: $22.99 David Cross can't tell Ed or Lucy that he is in some ways happier now that their mother is dead; to his own mind he is more himself than he has been for nearly forty years. When Nancy was alive, he had secrets that he kept from her. Now that she is dead he has a secret that he must keep from his children: he is not unhappy. To Heaven by Water is a touching and hilarious portrait of the Cross ...
	Other People's Money Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781408803882 RRP: $49.99 The upper-crust, family-owned bank of Tubal + Co, in the City of London, is in trouble. It's not the first time in its three hundred and forty year history, but it may be the last. A secret sale is under way, and a number of facts need to be kept hidden from the regulators and major clients. Masterminded by the bank's chairman, Julian Trevelyan-Tubal, hundreds of millions of pounds are bei...
	Other People's Money Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781408814130 RRP: $32.99 The upper-crust, family-owned bank of Tubal + Co, in the City of London, is in trouble. It's not the first time in its three hundred and forty year history, but it may be the last. A secret sale is under way, and a number of facts need to be kept hidden from the regulators and major clients. Masterminded by the bank's chariman, Julian Trevelyan-Tubal, hundreds of millions of pounds are bei...
	To Heaven By Water Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780747583424 RRP: $55.00 Now that his wife is dead, retired television news anchor, David Cross, believes that he is more himself than he has been for forty years. When Nancy was alive, he had secrets that he kept from her. Now he has a secret that he must keep from his children, Ed and Lucy, namely that he is in some ways happier now than he was when their mother was alive. To Heaven by Water is a touching and hilarious...
	This Secret Garden, Oxford Revisited Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780747579618 RRP: $29.95 This is an enchanting and highly original look at Oxford ... Oxford is many things. But it has a symbolic meaning well beyond its buildings, gardens, rituals and teaching. It stands for something deep in the Anglo-Saxon mind - excellence, a kind of privilege, a charmed life, deep-veined liberalism, a respect for tradition. Cartwright has spoken to many leading figures, looked at favourite places...
	The Song Before It Is Sung Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780747585947 RRP: $23.95 A stunning novel from the author of the prize-winning The Promise of Happiness. On 20 July 1944, Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassin's bomb. Axel von Gottberg and his conspirators were hunted down and hanged from meat-hooks, and the executions filmed. Sixty years later, Conrad Senior is left a legacy of papers by von Gottberg's close friend, the legendary Oxford professor Elya Mende...
	White Lightning Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780340821756 RRP: $21.00 A former soft-porn film director, turned motorcycle courier, is summoned to South Africa where his mother is dying - the start of an odyssey backwards into his memories . . . A motorcycle messenger drives into a small park in London to paint the words "White Lightning" on the tank of his bike. This is the beginning of an extraordinary novel. It is told over the space of a few months, and...

Other People's Money by Justin Cartwright

Other People's Money
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781608192731
RRP: $17.95

In the aftermath of a small bank's takeover by the son of an aging owner, actor manager Artair Macleod learns that the monthly grant on which his company depends was orchestrated by his wife in a scandalous affair with the bank owner that is exposed by an eager young reporter. Original. 35,000 first printing....

Oxford Revisited
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781596910935
RRP: $21.95

A portrait of the historical city by the London Jewish Counsel Award-winning author of The Song Before It Is Sung evaluates its medieval, liberal, and traditional influences while exploring the perspectives of leading minds and forefront debates that shaped its evolution....

The Stones of Oxford by Justin Cartwright

The Stones of Oxford
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781906506131
RRP: $47.95

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	Half In Love Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780340766293 Richard McAllister, a young minister in the government, has temporarily left the Cabinet while recovering from being stabbed by a thug at a football match. He has decided, while recuperating, to go to South Africa to research a relative in the Boer War. While in Mafeking, he is called back to London because his passionate affair with the actress Joanna Jermyn has become public knowledge. From t...
	Half In Love Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780340766309 Richard McAllister, a young minister in the government, has temporarily left the Cabinet while recovering from being stabbed by a thug at a football match. He has decided, while recuperating, to go to South Africa to research a relative in the Boer War. While in Mafeking, he is called back to London because his passionate affair with the actress Joanna Jermyn has become public knowledge. From t...
	Half In Love Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780340795057 Richard McAllister, a young minister in the government, has temporarily left the Cabinet while recovering from being stabbed by a thug at a football match. He has decided, while recuperating, to go to South Africa to research a relative in the Boer War. While in Mafeking, he is called back to London because his passionate affair with the actress Joanna Jermyn has become public knowledge. From t...
	Interior Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780340767610 A journalist and film-maker is investigating the disappearance of his father in Africa in 1959, while on a trip for 'National Geographic' in the company of the lovestruck Mrs de Luth. Certain of the locals believe he is still alive somewhere in the mountainous interior, having been adopted by the Ofreo tribe, a strange and venerable caste of master-craftsmen. Dodging the vested interests...
	The Promise Of Happiness Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780747574378 'The Promise Of Happiness' is a tour de force, an elegy to the idiocies and intricacies of family life and family love. Charles Judd stands peeing on small molluscs on a Cornish Beach. His wife Daphne is struggling with a Rick Stein recipe in the kitchen of a lime-washed house nearby. Their youngest daughter Sophie is hovering on the set of an advertising shoot in a studio in London. Cha...
	The Promise of Happiness Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780747577065 The Promise of Happiness is the latest novel from Booker-shortlisted and Whitbread Novel Award-winner Justin Cartwright Charles Judd meanders round his Cornish village, frequenting Betjeman's grave and occasionally urinating on it. His wife Daphne struggles hopelessly with the latest fish recipe, trying to keep something in her life under control. They are still recovering from the shock of ...
	The Promise of Happiness Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781596913790 This story examines the layers of intimacies and idiocies with an ordinary family, the Judds, and reveals the dramatic implications of the release from prison of Juliet, the prodigal daughter, and her reunion with her siblings and parents....
	The Song Before It Is Sung Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780747584124 Two Oxford friends find their friendship destroyed by the rise of the Nazis. On 20th July, l944 Adolf Hitler escaped death by a miracle in a failed bomb. He found the main conspirators, had them hung from meathooks and their executions filmed. Axel Count Von Gottberg, is one of those hanged by Hitler. Sixty years after his death, his old friend Elya Mendel leaves a legacy of papers and letters...
	The Song Before It Is Sung Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781596912694 Sixty years after the death of Axel von Gottberg, a German Rhodes scholar at Oxford, executed for plotting the assassination of Adolf Hitler, the death of Axel's old friend, Elya Mendel, who leaves behind a collection of papers and letters, sends Conrad Senior, a former student, on a quest into the past to uncover the truth about Axel, his life, and his death. Reprint. 15,000 first printing....
	To Heaven By Water Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780747598145 Now that his wife is dead, retired television news anchor, David Cross, believes that he is more himself than he has been for forty years. When Nancy was alive, he had secrets that he kept from her. Now he has a secret that he must keep from his children, Ed and Lucy, namely that he is in some ways happier now than he was when their mother was alive. To Heaven by Water is a touching and hilarious...
	To Heaven by Water Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781410422682 Widower and retired anchorman David Cross begins hiding the truth about his happiness from his children, who struggle with the loss of their mother and painful aspects of their personal relationships....
	To Heaven by Water Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781596916210 A latest work by the Whitbread winning author of Leading the Cheers finds widower and retired anchorman David Cross hiding the truth about his happiness from his children, who struggle with the loss of their mother and painful aspects of their personal relationships. Original....
	White Lightning Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780340821749 A former soft-porn film director, turned motorcycle courier, is summoned to South Africa where his mother is dying - the start of an odyssey backwards into his memories . . . A motorcycle messenger drives into a small park in London to paint the words "White Lightning" on the tank of his bike. This is the beginning of an extraordinary novel. It is told over the space of a few months, and...
	White Lightning Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780340827277 'Beneath a mountain in South Africa, a man is walking. He comes across an old farmhouse.' This is the beginning of an extraordinary novel. It is told over the space of a few months, and in these few months one man's whole life - his failures, his successes, his longing for peace and fulfilment, his loves and his tragedies - are recounted. The narrator, a former soft porn film direc...