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Norah Lofts
First published in 1945, Loft's masterful storytelling manages to weave lighter comedic moments into this darker tale. A suspenseful thriller that will leave the reader guessing in the final pages…
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Daisy Holt, sacked from her nursemaid post, sets off to make her fortune. Kitty Hammond discovers her and realises that Daisy would make an attraction in her 'respectable' brothel. There…
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Maude, 11-year-old daughter of a gently-born Lady, is sent off to Beauclaire Castle to learn to become a copy of her mother. She rebels and leaves the castle, facing a…
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Originally published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph Ltd. as Afternoon of an Autocrat. –Title page verso.
A continuation of Knight’s Acre, the further history of the Tallboys family.
Sir Godfrey Tallboys: A knight-errant at the top of his profession and with little thought beyond the next tourney. A long way from being
wealthy but in need of a…
Elenaor is young, high-spirited, supremely intelligent, heiress to the vast Duchy of Aquitaine - at a time when a woman’s value was measured in terms of wealth. This is the…
Hester Roon, equipped with little more than courage, determination and a strong will, made her way through in the harsh world of 18th century England. After fleeing from the Fleece…
A novel about the inhabitants of a country house in Suffolk from the late fourteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Covering the turbulent years of 1496 to 1680…
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Gad’s Hall and The Haunting Of Gad’s Hall, Norah Lofts’ tale of demonic possession, now available in one volume.
Ataxerxes, King of Persia needed a wife. He picked the one girl who would have given anything to have been passed over, a Jewish scholar, Esther, from the back streets…
She was the daughter of a preacher and a gypsy. A strange and elusive child with powers of prophecy, she grew into an even stranger woman. From those around her…
Julia Ashley was born to a life of dramatic twists and tragedy. Saved from Cromwell’s Irish massacres by her nurse, saved from starvation by a Dutch sea captain…Her future and…
Caroline Matilda, youngest sister of George III, was exiled to a foreign country, and married to a nearly insane Crown Prince of Denmark. This book is the story of the…
In a largely Puritan section of England, strong-willed Sarah Woodley’s Royalist leanings trapped her in a dangerous web of political intrigue. And when she saved a handsome young man with…
Norah Lofts' classic take on the story of Sir Walter Raleigh.
When the body of four-year-old John Vincent is discovered, hidden in a midden, the already unhappy Cornwall family begins to unravel. With no obvious reason for his murder, a scapegoat…
From beloved novelist Lofts comes the classic tale of romance and betrayal in the court of Henry VIII and his first queen, Katharine of Aragon. This is everything that a…
Based on the life of Sir Walter Raleigh.
Lost in a world of jealousy, corruption in both Church and State and witch hunts, can Henry and Joanna Tallboys of Knight’s Acre finally find the elusive happiness they seek?
The tragic story of Henry VIII’s most notorious wife.
The tale of a Suffolk tavern over its 1,500-year history.
Out of the courts of twelfth-century England strode the legendary figure of Richard of England - leading his knights onto the Saracen battlefields - inspired by a vision of the…
Historical novel by the late Norah Lofts covering 400 years’ history of a house, from Queen Elizabeth I to the 1950s, and the people and families who lived there. Their…
The wagon train held a strange and ill-assorted group of people who would be faced not only with appalling hardship but also with the problem of living with one another…
Norah Lofts revisits her fictional town of Baildon and its surroundings, adding the Old Priory into the histories of Ockley, Clevely, Layer Wood, Muchanger and Merravay.
Harriet Oakley needed all the courage she possessed on the night when an an ill-assorted company arrived on the Ipswich coach, destined to change forever the lives of those who…
The final volume of a trilogy set in Suffolk and spanning five centuries of a family’s history. Seven-year-old Felicity Hatton was a pickpocket in mid-18th century London, but chance sent…
A story that re-tells the birth of Christ.
The first volume of a trilogy set in Suffolk and spanning five centuries of a family’s history. In 1391 Martin Reed was bound to the soil by the feudal system…
Standard print ed. originally published: London: Hutchinson, 1961.
Lofts
From the pen of one of the original giants of historical fiction comes a dark and sexy perspective on one of history’s most controversial queens, Anne Boleyn.
The bestselling author of The King’s Pleasure and Here Was a Man returns with this latest title in her Richard the Lionhearted series.
