Ann Northfield
The Jewel Garden
The title refers to a type of Spiritualist belief in the novel about death and acts as a motif running…
A Gathering of Ghosts
This novel is set in 1316 near Dartmoor and uses three narrators. One is the Prioress Johanne of the Sisters…
The Cornish Dressmaker
It is 1796, and Elowyn Liddicot is young, independently minded and attractive, as is usual with heroines. When the novel…
The Butcher’s Daughter
Agnes Peppin, the butcher’s daughter of the title, has been caught in the age-old way of young women. Forced to…
The Optickal Illusion
Based on a real-life scandal in 1797, this novel is concerned with Ann-Jemima Provis and her father, who want to…
Hotel on Shadow Lake
The novel begins with Martha Wiesberg in 1990. This part is quite brief, and the action immediately jumps back in…
House of the Waterlily
Subtitled “A Novel of the Ancient Maya World”, the novel is set in the fictitious civilisation of Calumook. The manners…
Silk and Song
The book begins in China in 1292. The main character, Wu Johanna, is a direct descendant of Marco Polo, the…
Pale Horse Riding
This is a strange and unsettling novel, primarily due to its setting. The place of Auschwitz permeates the book. It…
Fools and Mortals
Editors' choice
This is a complete change of scene, time and character from Sharpe and Uhtred, previous well-beloved characters in Cornwell’s fiction.…
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