Norah Lofts
Eleanor the Queen
First published in the 1950s and set in 12th-century France and England, Eleanor the Queen follows Eleanor of Aquitaine from…
The Lute Player
I first read this recently reissued novel over twenty years ago. A sweeping saga about Richard the Lionhearted and the…
The Town House / The House at Old Vine / The House at Sunset
This trilogy, spanning six centuries, is the story of a Suffolk house and the people who lived in it from…
Here Was a Man: A Novel of Sir Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth l
Here Was a Man, by bestselling author Norah Lofts, has been reissued, and like all of Lofts’s works, is…
The King’s Pleasure
Originally published in 1969, Norah Lofts’s novel about the life of Katherine of Aragon is being reissued again for the…
The King’s Pleasure
Originally published in 1969, this reissued novel by one of the grande dames of 20th-century historical fiction tells the familiar…
The Concubine
The popularity of historical fiction about historical women in general and Boleyn women in particular has resulted in the republication…
Eleanor the Queen
Eleanor the Queen is a vivid account of the life of one of the world’s most famous queens, Eleanor of…
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