Bøger af Susan Lund

Susan Lund's Review of Volume 1 of Beethoven's Conversation Books in English (Books 1-8: February 1818 to March 1820) Translated & Edited by Theodore Albrecht, First Published 2018 by The Boydell Press, Woodbridge

His perfect life is shattered when a mugger kills his fiancee and unborn child. How does he cope? How does he grieve? Will vengeance save his life or swallow him? Set in the aftermath of 9/11 and the Iraq war, GROVELANDS explores themes of vengeance and grief.

Beethoven's life from the inside, as a creative artist. Susan Lund has been a Beethoven researcher for 40 years. Her previous books on Beethoven include RAPTUS, a novel with introductory articles; BEETHOVEN & THE CATHOLIC BRENTANOS; and PASSION. PASSION stage-play was presented at Kings Place, London, on July 7th, 2012, to mark the 200th anniversary of Beethoven's Immortal Beloved letter. Leading scholars have called her work humane, insightful, strong and beautifully written. Classical Music said RAPTUS 'Gets under the skin of Beethoven, ' Philip Weiss in the New York Times called it the 'flesh and blood Beethoven.' Susan Lund has always written. Her first play for television appeared when she was 16, her first novel was published at 19. BEETHOVEN: Life of an Artist gives new insight into the life of Beethoven, written by a creative artist.

A new missing persons case, a prime suspect and questions about an old friend challenge amateur sleuth and crime reporter Tess McClintock and FBI Special Agent Michael Carter in THE GIRL WHO RAN AWAY, the first book in the Girl Who Ran trilogy and another installment in the McClintock-Carter Crime Thriller Series.Book Two, The Next Girl, will be released Summer 2019.While Tess McClintock finishes writing her articles about Eugene Kincaid for the Seattle Sentinel, the girlfriend and daughter of an old college friend go missing. When their bodies turn up on property owned by the family, Tess's friend becomes the prime suspect. Tess enlists FBI Special Agent Michael Carter to help her discover whether her old friend is responsible for the grisly murders.

Opening with a murder, ending with a coffin, PECCATA LUNDI depicts the Sins of the Lunds. And some of them are very black indeed! A tale of cruelty and hilarity, warfare and family fights, great daughters and evil, this memoir in the form of a novel contains a host of real-life Dickensian characters.

London, 1964: Errol Flynn's double meets Gwin, half his age. He is from Hollywood, she is from the North of England. He wants to write, she is having a book published...

Formula One. As the cars roar round the track, one fan screams out his grief over the murder of his wife - by the brother of his new wife. RACE TO WIN approaches 9/11 & the Iraq war from the standpoint of a man violently stripped of all he held dear, who is now trying to re-build his life. Its theme is redemption, forgiveness - or vengeance...

Mental illness, grief, bereavement - a study of people in extremis; also the strength, love, friendship which survives such an experience.

Bob, an average Joe of about 30, is standing as god-father to his friend, Geoff's, child. Women joke, 'He'll be next!' but Bob is happy enough as a bachelor until he meets Beata, a beautiful Irish colleen. Beata is married to Bob's colleague, Stirling, a wealthy man, twice her age. The games-playing by which their marriage catches fire traps Bob into an unfulfilling, platonic relationship with Beata. Things come to a head at a party put on by Geoff, where Bob is left moaning in sexual frustration in front of a roomful of office colleagues.Bob goes as an aid-worker to Angola 'because he's heard of it' - the place where Diana did her walk against land-mines. Despite its great wealth in oil and diamonds, corruption surrounding the long civil war makes this 'the worst place in the world to be a child.' Bob joins a bush-hospital, where he becomes attached to Mine-da, a toddler whose foot has been hacked off with a machete 'so that he won't fight for the other side.' Beata sends a Fortnum's hamper at Christmas. Bob becomes a surrogate father to Mine-da. A Portuguese nurse, Marie-Elisabeth, falls in love with him. She sings Fado to him - the Portuguese fate-song. She becomes pregnant. They decide to marry, in front of a stunning waterfall. Marie-Elisabeth is blown up by a land-mine as she is delivering polio vaccine. Bob returns with her body to Portugal, to realize that this woman, whom he did not love, had been somebody's sister, somebody's child.Back in England, he finds a cheap room near the railway. He tries not to see Beata yet seems to be dragged to return to their old haunts. Stirling has left the firm. Bob stands gazing at Beata's house, not even sure if she still lives there. When he does visit, she is alone - Stirling is in hospital, having a prostate operation. Bob, who has learnt to drive in Angola, sets out to drive Beata to the hospital. They end up in his room, making love for the first time, to the accompaniment of scraping and whistling as a man puts up a new poster on the side of their bedroom wall. Stirling tries to win his wife back with a diamond crucifix. 'You're showing me your wealth in the symbol of suffering and poverty!' Stirling gives the diamond crucifix to a tramp, who exchanges it for a hit of cocaine. Beata gives birth to Bob's child but dies of a haemorrhage. This time the christening is that of Bob's baby. Bob takes his new daughter back to Angola and Mine-da, holding her up to the plane window: 'There's a whole big world out there!'

Crooks, whores, topless dancers, sex-clubs. The whore-house in the London council-flat. The young girl growing up without a father. The boy obsessed by a psychopath. Racialist tensions in the 1970s. Lust. Murder. Morality. God. Any of these of interest to you? They're all here in this book!

Against the background of the Napoleonic wars, Beethoven's illegitimate son by his Immortal Beloved is brought up in Frankfurt by her husband whilst Beethoven in Vienna adopts his late brother's child. Beethoven writes the Missa Solemnis to awaken his son's spiritual awareness after the four-year old boy is stricken by illness. Reader reactions: 'Powerful & moving.' 'Enjoyable & informative... a touching love story.' 'An extraordinary story, beautifully told.'

This book contains previously-unpublished research on Beethoven by Susan Lund. Together with her earlier articles, 'Beethoven: a True 'Fleshly Father'?'; 'If One Has Only One Son' (both reprinted in her novel Raptus) & 'The Visit That Beethoven Did Not Make' (Beethoven Journal/San Jose), Beethoven & The Catholic Brentanos completes her work on Beethoven. 'It really doesn't matter with whom Beethoven slept nor whom Beethoven fathered unless it affects the music. I maintain that it does.'