Anya Seton
Smouldering Fires
Amy Delatour, a shy, awkward high school senior, lives an unhappy life in Greenwich, Connecticut in the 1970s. Her mother…
The Turquoise
Santa Fe Cameron never knew her aristocratic Spanish mother. When she was seven years old, her Scottish father discovered that…
Foxfire
This novel, first published in 1951, is set in New York City and the Arizona in the 1930s. Amanda Lawrence,…
The Hearth and Eagle
This novel, first published in 1948, was the fourth written by Anya Seton, a popular historical fiction writer who died…
My Theodosia
This novel is one in a series of reprints Chicago Review Press is publishing of the work of the great…
Devil Water
Through a youthful misalliance, Charles Radcliffe, brother to the Earl of Derwentwater, is forced to marry a pregnant Northumbrian lass.…
The Winthrop Woman
A sprawling epic that covers the entire life of a woman whose vicissitudes and adventures formed a characteristic part of…
Avalon
Having thoroughly enjoyed Anya Seton’s Katherine, I was excited to delve into this reissue of her 1965 classic novel Avalon.…
Katherine
This assignment is both an absolute joy and something of a challenge. Hodder have re-packaged Anya Seton’s classic under their…
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