Chatto & Windus
Tides of War: A Novel of the Peninsular War
Set in Regency London and Spain 1812-1815, this novel recounts in short scenes, or vignettes, the key points in the…
The Popes: A History
Anyone with a passing interest in church history – and that really means European, indeed world history – will be…
The Omnipotent Magician: Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown 1716-1783
The author has written an impressive number of books on gardening in England, and she now turns to look at…
Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great War
The relatively small number of British poets who have come to epitomise the experience of the Great War continues to…
Bleakly Hall
Editors' choice
After reviewing and very much enjoying Ms di Rollo’s first novel, A Proper Education for Girls, I eagerly awaited this,…
Sisters of Fortune
Wake offers a riveting joint biography of four remarkable sisters: Marianne, Bess, Louisa and Emily Caton. These half-English, devoutly Catholic…
Butterfly’s Shadow
This novel is a rich, engrossing blend of love, deceit and two diverse countries and cultures. Although woven around two…
Sisters of Fortune
Three rich and beautiful sisters from Maryland descend on Regency London, while sister Emily stays at home, marries and has…
The Player’s Curse
This is the third in the Bella Wallis series, set in a feisty Victorian England. Bella, who is a successful…
The Opposite of Falling
In 1862, Ursula Bridgewater of Liverpool is jilted without explanation by her fiancé. Independent of mind, means and now of…
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