Ann Northfield
Pleasing Mr Pepys
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Deb Willett is employed in the household of the diarist Samuel Pepys as a companion for his wife. She is there to help ...Read Review
The House of Shadows (UK) / Into the Darkness (US)
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This is the third part of the De Witt family saga, the previous two installments being The Storms of War and The Edge ...Read Review
Viceroys: The Creation of the British
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Author of the bestselling This Sceptred Isle, Christopher Lee has now turned his attention to the British in India looking at the country ...Read Review
Sacred Music
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At a time of huge divisions and distrust between Protestantism and Catholicism, Francis Trenowith, heir to an earldom, falls in love with the ...Read Review
The Butcher’s Daughter
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Agnes Peppin, the butcher’s daughter of the title, has been caught in the age-old way of young women. Forced to leave behind ...Read Review
The Cornish Dressmaker
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It is 1796, and Elowyn Liddicot is young, independently minded and attractive, as is usual with heroines. When the novel opens, she is engaged ...Read Review
The Jewel Garden
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The title refers to a type of Spiritualist belief in the novel about death and acts as a motif running through as a ...Read Review
A Gathering of Ghosts
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This novel is set in 1316 near Dartmoor and uses three narrators. One is the Prioress Johanne of the Sisters of the Knights of ...Read Review
The Optickal Illusion
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Based on a real-life scandal in 1797, this novel is concerned with Ann-Jemima Provis and her father, who want to present (and sell) an ...Read Review
Hotel on Shadow Lake
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The novel begins with Martha Wiesberg in 1990. This part is quite brief, and the action immediately jumps back in time to the same ...Read Review