Following the breakdown of the Peace of Amiens in 1802, Napoleon retaliated against England's renewal of hostilities by holding as prisoners all British civilians in France at the time.
Poor, orphaned Louisa was only at Rosewell a short time when she realised that all was not well between her golden-haired cousin Caroline and Caroline's coolly handsome husband, Colonel Rowland Dynham.
Ortolans, a magnificent stately home that holds a mysterious grip on all those who live in it, hides a secret that has lain undiscovered for four hundred years.
This captivating first novel by the author who has been called Scotland's answer to Catherine Cookson tells a story of love and ambition set in Lanarkshire in the 19th century.
Set in wartime London, the second novel in The Hooper Family series continues the story that began with A Corner of the Heart: the saga of an East End clan that knows both the Shadwell docklands and the world of books and broadcasting.
Jennifer Winfield goes to work as a residential secretary at the Manor House, where the elderly Lady Barclay is researching a book of the family history.
'I spy with my little eye, where the bird goes when he doesn't fly,' Mama said one mid-day, her words floating on the Richmond heat as we carried empty cookpots through the yard to the kitchen.
Set on a 19th century farm in rural Lancashire near Liverpool, this heartwarming saga is the story of Poppy Appleton, a girl who grew up in ignorance and poverty but has been adopted by a prosperous farmer's wife.
Tempestuous Briar Macauley s single-minded stubbornness to prove to the world that she is the equal to any man leads her into so many disastrous circumstances that her parents despair of ever making a lady of her.
'Mary Stewart is a wonderful writer - you fall into the book, its location and plot' Reader review 'Beautifully written and full of twists and turns that kept me guessing until the end' Reader review 'Escapism of the best kind' Reader review While on a walking holiday through the beautiful, deserted hills of Crete, Nicola Ferris stumbles across a critically injured Englishman, guarded by a fierce Greek.
**The final installment in the beautifully heartwarming Gibson Family series, perfect for fans of 'Call the Midwife', Dilly Court and Catherine Cookson**Lancashire, 1860.
**Book two in the gorgeously heartwarming Gibson Family series, perfect for fans of Catherine Cookson, Dilly Court and 'Call the Midwife'**Lancashire, 1845.
font size="e;+1"e;>'Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James' Julia Quinn, bestselling author of Bridgertons
The second book in the New York Times bestselling Desperate Duchesses series, perfect for fans of Julia Quinn's Bridgertons and Eloisa's Wildes of Lindow Castle
'Choc-full of romantic heroes romantic heroes that would give Darcy a run for his money.
font size="e;+1"e;>'Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James' Julia Quinn, bestselling author of Bridgertons
The third book in the New York Times bestselling Desperate Duchesses series, perfect for fans of Julia Quinn's Bridgertons and Eloisa's Wildes of Lindow Castle
'Choc-full of romantic heroes romantic heroes that would give Darcy a run for his money.
font size="e;+1"e;>'Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James' Julia Quinn, bestselling author of Bridgertons
The first book in the New York Times bestselling Desperate Duchesses series, perfect for fans of Julia Quinn's Bridgertons and Eloisa's Wildes of Lindow Castle
'Choc-full of romantic heroes romantic heroes that would give Darcy a run for his money.
The streets of eighteenth-century Edinburgh, where disease and squalor jostle with high culture and grand ambitions, are the setting for Jessica Stirling's powerful new novel.
The unforgettable debut by the million-copy bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow, The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two'Irresistible'Daily Telegraph'Impossibly glamorous'The Times'Fabulous'ObserverOn the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate New York City jazz bar trying to stretch three dollars as far as it will go.
'A great adventure, powerfully told' (Philippa Gregory) A sumptuous tale of passion and danger in the medieval court, Anya Seton's Katherine is an all-time classic.
