Mary Seeley
Deadly Inheritance
Deadly Inheritance is to be the first in a crime series featuring the resolute American, Ursula Grandison. Ursula comes to…
A Humble Companion
Nellie Welche is twelve when, in 1788, she is selected to be a “humble companion” to the young Princess Sofia…
Season of Light
Thomasina (Asa) Ardleigh is 19 years old and wants to change the world. In Paris in the spring of 1788,…
The Kashmir Shawl
Editors' choice
In present-day Wales, Mair Ellis is intrigued by the beautiful Kashmir shawl containing a lock of hair that she discovers…
Accabadora
This is Sardinian Michela Murgia’s first novel and comes garlanded with prizes from Italy, where it was first published in…
Whisper of Scandal
May 1811. Commodore David Ware has left his widow, society belle Lady Joanna, and his closest friend, Alexander, Lord Grant,…
Young Henry: The Rise of Henry Vlll
This new biography concentrates on Henry VIII’s life up until the triumphant coronation of the pregnant Anne Boleyn in 1533.…
Bound to the Barbarian
A quick dip into Wikipedia for a chronology of Byzantine emperors reveals that this story is set in the spring…
The House of Dust and Dreams
Evadne Timberlake first sees her husband Hugh’s dilapidated family house in the Cretan village of Panagia Sta Perivola in the…
Till the Day Go Down
The border country between England and Scotland is a lawless and dangerous place in the mid-16th century, so when Harry…
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