Set in suffragette London. Lotta Rae is a working-class 15-year-old, raped by a wealthy gentleman, who makes the brave decision to testify in court. William Lindon is a barrister about to lose everything. Both have decisions to make that will change the course of their lives and the lives of everyone around them for generations to come.
A drama set on the battlefields of Europe as a global influenza pandemic looms.
A drama set on the battlefields of Europe as a global influenza pandemic looms.
1867. When plant hunter Harry Compton receives a rare specimen and a map, he sets out to find fame and fortune. But where there is wealth there is corruption, and soon Harry is fleeing England, sailing up the Yangtze alongside a young widow - both in pursuit of the plant that could change their futures.
Englishwoman Laura Hewitt accompanies her newly engaged cousin to India, first to Calcutta and then to the fabled fiefdom of Oliver Erskine, Zemindar of a private kingdom with its own army. An epic love story, set during the Indian Mutiny.
Set in the fifteenth century during the Hundred Years War between France and England, Hella Haasse's novel captures all the drama of one of the great ages of history.
The next novel from Jan Casey. She read their secrets during the war. Now she cannot forget them...
When her parents die, Neva is adopted by an eccentric clock and automata maker who devises a machine to help her when she discovers she has a gift that will prove to be as dangerous as it is desirable: she can predict the weather. Now Neva must find a way to disguise her true identity from those who would destroy her.