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The passion-filled world of Keats, Byron and Shelley leaps off the page in this brilliant and unforgettable novel - 'Rich, authentic, beautifully written' Tracy Chevalier

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A witty and romantic novel of Regency love, family and appalling scandal, from a latter-day Jane AustenWhen their strait-laced, domineering father, Sir Clement Carnell, dies, Valentine throws open their Devonshire estate of Pennacombe to their fashionable cousins from London and Louisa feels free at last to reject the man Sir Clement wanted her to marry.Soon, the temptations of Regency London beckon, including the beautiful, scandalous, and ve...

For Peter Fox, being a bowling alley proprietor was a calling. Right from the beginning, the Upstate New York village of Koopersville embraced Peter's glistening new bowling alley with its modern automatic pinsetters, and Koopersville Bowl quickly became the heart and soul of the village.Peter's dream business opened in 1962, and year after year, the bowling alley was the place where the trials and tribulations of growing up in a small New Eng...

For Peter Fox, being a bowling alley proprietor was a calling. Right from the beginning, the Upstate New York village of Koopersville embraced Peter's glistening new bowling alley with its modern automatic pinsetters, and Koopersville Bowl quickly became the heart and soul of the village.Peter's dream business opened in 1962, and year after year, the bowling alley was the place where the trials and tribulations of growing up in a small New Eng...

FICTION / Historical / General

When Caroline Fortune's father loses all they possess, she goes along with his scheme to set her up as the companion to a society woman. As she begins to attract the attentions of many so-called gentlemen, will Miss Fortune be able to keep from losing her head--or her reputation?

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Wonderfully witty and superbly stylish, INDISCRETION is a spirited tale of love and Miss Fortune, which brings the elegance and flamboyance of Regency England to life.

She inspired you, you loved her and sang of her, her task was done' Franz Liszt to Hector Berlioz, 1854

Theirs was a world of obsession, genius, and above all... In the turbulent years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, three poets-Byron, Shelley, and Keats-come to prominence, famous and infamous, for their vivid personalities, and their glamorous, shocking, and sometimes tragic lives. In this electrifying novel, those lives are explored through the eyes of the women who knew and loved them-intensely, scandalously.Four women from ...

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FICTION / Historical

In 1827, Harriet Smithson, a beautiful and talented Irish actress, joins an English Shakespeare company where she falls in love with a young composer. But his love becomes obsession, and their lives will be transfigured and destroyed by genius, inspiration, and madness.

In a novel that one of the Bronts could have written, Morgan brings the sisters' genius to life. Quite simply the best novel about the Bronts I have ever read.--Juliet Barker, author of "The Bronts: A Life in Letters.