Household ghosts - James Kennaway

Tunes of Glory
Household Ghosts
Silence

This
volume collects three of the very best works by James Kennaway, the
brilliant young novelist and screenwriter who tragically died in a car
crash at the early age of forty.

Memorably filmed with Alec Guinness and John Mills, Tunes of Glory
is a grippingly dramatic exploration of the glamour and the brutality
of post-war army life as the tensions and conflicts in the officers'
mess of a Highland regiment lead to shame and tragedy.

Household Ghosts
is a claustrophobic tale of family tension, love triangles and the
persistence of the past-one of Kennaway's favourite themes. Set in a
country house in Scotland the book is haunted, like the privileged
family it describes, by the ghosts of Scotland's own turbulent history.

Taken from completed drafts on the author's desk, Silence
tells of the accidental meeting and the complex union between a white
man and a black woman in times of racial tension and sexual violence.
Set in a North American city in midwinter Kennaway's last and
brilliantly succinct novel expands into a universal allegory of
suffering and death.