Background
Her father was the Guyanese writer January Carew. Lisa Street Aubin de Terán was born in 1953 (to Joan Mary Murray and January Carew) and brought up in Clapham in South London.
(MOZAMBIQUE MYSTERIES is about turning fifty and finding a...)
MOZAMBIQUE MYSTERIES is about turning fifty and finding a new direction. Lisa St Aubin de Terán travelled to Mozambique and, for the first time in her much-travelled life, felt at home - in a place 'so remote that few have visited it since the time of Vasco da Gama'. After three marriages and various affairs, she also fell in love. She set up a school and, together with her niece, the Terán Foundation. From the acclaimed author of THE HACIENDA, Mozambique Mysteries is a story of new beginnings in a country of contrasts and challenges - her most inspiring story yet.
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( Venezuela to Italy, villages to prisons, and forests to...)
Venezuela to Italy, villages to prisons, and forests to whore houses are the backdrops to these short stories. In many senses, the characters are the dispossessed, but through compassionate tales they are seen anew through their will to survive, their grace and humor.
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Of all the romantic obsessions in novelist Lisa St Aubin de Teran's life, the search for a castle occupied her the longest--until she saw the magnificent Villa Orsola deep in the Umbrian hills. Only after eagerly signing the ownership papers did she and her husband, painter Robbie Duff-Scott, discover they were the owners of a vast ruin lacking windowpanes, parts of the roof, and other essentials. A Valley in Italy recounts its restoration in the grand style of impossible house and the charms of bohemian family life. It also offers a rare portrait of the life of a. Italian village, where "all things are made to be as enjoyable as possible." " Lisa St Aubin de Teran's intuitive sense of place, her affection for the people around her, and her appreciation for native Italian grace make this a memorable book that can stand beside the best accounts of Italian life.
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(A collection of short stories, all completely different, ...)
A collection of short stories, all completely different, all laced with drama and poignancy. They include "Diamond Jim", a ghost story, and "I Never Eat Crabmeat Now", a psychological metaphor. By the same author as "Keepers of the House", "The Slow Train to Milan", and "Off the Rails".
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(m childhood journey for the author, through Russia on the...)
m childhood journey for the author, through Russia on the Occident Express, began a lifetime's obsession with trains. This book describes some of her many journeys. Train trips through Argentina, around Italy, from the Norfolk fens or to Loch Dhu, all part of a surprising journey through life.
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(Indiscreet Journeys: Stories of Women on the Road, by St ...)
Indiscreet Journeys: Stories of Women on the Road, by St Aubin de Teran, Lisa, ed.
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(This is St Aubin de Teran's first novel. Originally publi...)
This is St Aubin de Teran's first novel. Originally published in 1982, it won the Somerset Maugham Award that year. Set in the Venezuelan Andes, the story tells of a English woman newly married to a sugar planter and of the people she meets in the valley. She has also written A Valley in Italy.
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(4 seasons in Venice)
4 seasons in Venice
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(MOZAMBIQUE MYSTERIES is about turning fifty and finding a...)
MOZAMBIQUE MYSTERIES is about turning fifty and finding a new direction. Lisa St Aubin de Teran travelled to Mozambique and, for the first time in her much-travelled life, felt at home - in a place 'so remote that few have visited it since the time of Vasco da Gama'. After three marriages and various affairs, she also fell in love. She set up a school and, together with her niece, the Teran Foundation. From the acclaimed author of THE HACIENDA, Mozambique Mysteries is a story of new beginnings in a country of contrasts and challenges - her most inspiring story yet.
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(When two old ladies in Palm Beach decide that too many of...)
When two old ladies in Palm Beach decide that too many of the 'slugs' of our race get away with murder, they hire an English housewife to do some routine pest control...This process of weeding, of selecting and discarding, dominates Lisa St Aubin de Teran's first collection of short stories. Garter, a lonely Clapham Common road-sweeper who befriends a schoolgirl is 'moved on'; if a country cottage is to be the haven Miss Lizzie has longed for, she must first exterminate hordes of rats; a suspected witch and unwilling mother complains of acquaintances invading her mind and within a week they are dead; an abandoned child remains loyal to the memory of her sailor father, comforted over the years by the sound of the sea. Her characters inadvertently trap themselves in cycles of punishment or live in self-imposed exile, searching for love as an elusive form of escape. The natural and man-made worlds alternately complement and thwart each other in settings that vary from the simple to the exotic. The Riviera and the Peruvian Andes, a Norfolk village and cosy suburbia are all evoked with the wit and imagination that makes Lisa 'still the most inventive and exciting novelist of her generation in Britain' (Sunday Independent).
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(A personal account of Venice which evokes not only the ci...)
A personal account of Venice which evokes not only the city's visual splendours, but the character and contrasts of its daily routine. The author has lived in Italy for the past seven years and has published seven novels including "Keepers of the House" and "A Slow Train to Milan".
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(A childhood journey through Russia on the Occident Expres...)
A childhood journey through Russia on the Occident Express began the author's lifetime addiction to trains, an addiction which forms the basis of this part-autobiography, part-travelogue. Journeys through Argentina, Germany, Italy, Turkey and the USA are all related in these memoirs.
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Her father was the Guyanese writer January Carew. Lisa Street Aubin de Terán was born in 1953 (to Joan Mary Murray and January Carew) and brought up in Clapham in South London.
She attended the James Allen"s Girls" School.
Her memoir, Hacienda (1998), describes how she fell into a whirlwind first marriage to an exiled Venezuelan landowner, Jaime Terán, living for seven years at a remote farm in the Andean region of Venezuela. Her second husband was the Scottish poet and novelist George MacBeth. In the same year she moved to Wiggenhall Saint Mary Magdalen in Norfolk.
In 1994 she presented an episode of the British Broadcasting Corporation television series Great Railway Journeys.
Her third husband was the painter Robbie Duff Scott (born 1959), with whom she moved to Umbria, describing her life there in A Valley in Italy (1995). Her work includes further novels and memoirs (including Memory Maps in 2003), short-story collections and poetry.
Otto (Virago), a fictionalised biography, was published in 2006. This phase of her life has been described in Mozambique Mysteries (2007).
Terán Foundation"s first project, The College of Tourism and Agriculture (CTCA) in Cabaceira Grande, functioned between 2004 and 2010 before it was sold back to the government.
A second restaurant and guest house, Sunset Boulevard, functions on a non-profit basis as a training facility in Mossuril. The third building project, The Leopard Spot, is currently under construction in Milange, on the border with Malawi.
( Of all the romantic obsessions in novelist Lisa St Aubi...)
(A childhood journey through Russia on the Occident Expres...)
(When two old ladies in Palm Beach decide that too many of...)
(A personal account of Venice which evokes not only the ci...)
(m childhood journey for the author, through Russia on the...)
( Venezuela to Italy, villages to prisons, and forests to...)
(A collection of short stories, all completely different, ...)
(Indiscreet Journeys: Stories of Women on the Road, by St ...)
(MOZAMBIQUE MYSTERIES is about turning fifty and finding a...)
(MOZAMBIQUE MYSTERIES is about turning fifty and finding a...)
(This is St Aubin de Teran's first novel. Originally publi...)
(Book by ST AUBIN DE TERAN, Lisa)
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
(4 seasons in Venice)
