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At the age of seven I was a skilful pickpocket. I could sew neatly, write a tolerable hand, make a curtsey and a correct introduction, dance a little and play simple tunes on the harpsichord. This was the London life of Felicity Hatton in 1740 - until chance sent her back to the House, first as a pauper, later to become its mistress - a strange eccentric mistress whose choice of husband was as unorthodox as her manner of living. The House at S...

When Daisy Holt was dismissed from her post as a nursemaid she set off cheerfully into the jungle of mid-Victorian London. When Kitty Hammond, proprietress of the select establishment off Leicester Square discovered her she was quick to realise that Daisy had a rare talent and would make a successful entertainer. And there it was that she met the impoverished artist John Skelton. To him Daisy represented the perfect model - the one to inspire ...

Hortense Beauharnais finds herself rubbing shoulders with royalty as her mother remarries to become Napoleon Bonaparte's wife. Despite attempts to retain her individuality, Hortense finds herself married to Napoleon's brother Louis, but her heart is with Charles de Flahaut, a gallant young officer.

Legend has long told the story of Blondel the Lute Player who found the lost soldier-king Richard Coeur-de-Lion-kidnapped on the way back from the great crusade to the Holy Land. Blondel found his king by travelling for months across Europe singing the first part of a love-song which Richard and he had composed together. One day, from behind castle walls, the voice of Richard responded to the strain. But why would a minstrel embark on such a r...

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Norah Lofts' Mesmerising Final Novel.When wealthy Penelope Mercer fell in love she would not take no for an answer. So, Adam Woodley, a simple pargeter, who had created the decorations for her father's new house, was to become her husband. A pragmatic man, he had nothing to lose as the love of his own life had died. This unconventional marriage produced a son and a daughter and it was Sarah Woodley-Mercer who inherited both her mother's determ...

The Tresize family struggles through three generations to overcome their house's terrible curse, which brings misfortune and tragedy to them.

GAD'S HALLWhen a house comes up for sale at a ridiculously low price there has to be a catch. Doesn't there? Some sort of legal problem. More prosaically, rising damp or subsidence. But Gad's Hall had none of these problems, it was modernised and in good condition. Mr. Thorley, the vendor, had his reasons for the sale and the price so Jill and Bob Spender were happy to make the purchase. What Mr. Thorley did not-could not-know was that there w...

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When the body of four-year-old John Vincent is discovered, hidden in a midden, the already unhappyCornwall family begins to unravel. With no obvious reason for his murder, a scapegoat must be found andhis elder half-sister Charlotte, the sleepwalker, neatly fits the bill. After facing the horror of a trial by jury, Charlotte is found not guilty but suspicion still follows her asshe takes up almost unpaid work as a teacher in the untrustworthy ...

Elenaor is young, high-spirited, supremely intelligent, heiress to the vast Duchy of Aquitaine - at a time when a woman's value was measured in terms of wealth. This is the story of a medieval figure - of a princess who led her own knights to the Crusades, who was bride to two kings and mother of Richard the Lion Heart.

Presents a personal chronicle of Isabella of Spain.

Henry Tallboys: The eldest son of Sir Godfrey and Lady Sybilla Tallboys is tied to the plough and scratching a living on Knight's Acre. Henry's stubbornness and honesty means he even puts aside much-needed money for a missing brother long believed dead.Joanna Serriff: The daughter of an Arabian woman who saved Sir Godfrey and born at Knight's Acre. Joanna is heiress to fabulous jewels which Henry refuses to use to support the land she loves so...

Sir Godfrey Tallboys:Battered and bruised from years as a captive in Spain after an ill-fated crusade, this former knight-errant has returned home to Knight's Acre to his wife and children. But with him is theMoorish slave girl to whom he owes his life-pregnant with his child. Lady Sybilla Tallboys:Exhausted with struggling to keep her children fed and poverty at bay, Sir Godfrey's beautiful wife has grown old before her time. But she, too, ha...

Legend has long told the story of Blondel the Lute Player who found the lost soldier-king Richard Coeur-de-Lion-kidnapped on the way back from the great crusade to the Holy Land. Blondel found his king by travelling for months across Europe singing the first part of a love-song which Richard and he had composed together. One day, from behind castle walls, the voice of Richard responded to the strain. But why would a minstrel embark on such a r...

Sir Godfrey Tallboys: A knight-errant at the top of his profession and with little thought beyond the next tourney. A long way from beingwealthy but in need of a house for his pretty young wife.Lady Sybilla Tallboys: A loving wife, tolerant of her husband's shortcomings-and with a strong desire for a home where she could raise theirfour children instead of relying on the charity of relatives.Forethought was rare for Sir Godfrey but he decided ...

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A novel about the inhabitants of a country house in Suffolk from the late fourteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. It begins with the story of Martin Reed, a serf existing under the control of a universally accepted and supported hierarchy.