Elizabeth Hawksley
Lieutenant Fury
1793. In France, the Royalists are clinging to power in Toulon, but the Republicans are gaining ground. Lieutenant Fury, returning…
The Riddle of the River
1898. Cambridge. In this, the fifth of the Vanessa Weatherburn mysteries, a beautiful young girl is discovered floating in the…
The Cockney Sparrow
1889. Struggling to make a living in the slums of Cheapside, London, Clemency Skinner supports her crippled brother Jack and…
The Painted Lady
London, 1670s. To aid their seduction of the beautiful Araminta, four of London’s most dissolute rakes have set up The…
The Burning Roses
This, the 29th book in the Morland family saga, is set in 1915. The nation is at war. Jessie Morland,…
The Lady Grace Mysteries: Gold
1578. Lady Grace Cavendish is maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth I in this, the seventh Lady Grace mystery. The…
Beyond These Walls – Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto
This is the vivid and compelling autobiography of Janina Bauman, a young Jewish girl (the same age as Anne Frank)…
The Moneylender’s Daughter
1637. In this second book in the Windjammer series, the Draco, carrying sixteen-year-old Adam Windjammer, is sailing up the American…
The Remarkable Life and Times of Eliza Rose
London, 1670. In a tremendous opening scene, 15-year-old Eliza, starving and desperate, is thrown into the notorious Clink Prison. From…
Set In Stone
1898. Samuel Godwin, fresh from Art College, is appointed art tutor to 19-year-old Juliana Farrow and her 16-year-old sister Marianne…
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