Sometime before 1518 Edward Seymour, the brother of Queen Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII, married Catherine Filliol. Catherine gained connections in the highest echelons of Tudor society and Edward the prospect of a large inheritance. It should have been a match made in heaven, but instead, within a decade, they were engulfed in […]
The Wire and the Lines by Patrick Larsimont
Summer, 1943, and when fighter pilot Jox McNabb crashes on the wrong side of the straits of Messina, he is captured by the Germans. It seems that for Jox, the war might be over. But Jox is never one to give up. Desperate to escape, he quickly familiarises himself with the camp and gets to […]
The Lost Passenger by Frances Quinn
Trapped in an unhappy aristocratic marriage, Elinor Coombes sees only lonely days ahead of her. So a present from her father — tickets for the maiden voyage of a huge, luxurious new ship called the Titanic – offers a welcome escape from the cold, controlling atmosphere of her husband’s ancestral home, and some precious time […]
The Queen and the Countess by Anne O’Brien
England in the 1450s: Queen Margaret knows she must protect the crown — and her son, Prince Edward’s, claim to it — at all costs. With her husband, King Henry, increasingly frail, it is up to Margaret to fight for their inheritance. And as the Wars of the Roses rage on, her enemies and their […]
Eliza Mace by Jem Poster and Sarah Burton
In the Welsh borders, in the 1870s, on the cusp of adulthood, Eliza Mace is battling for her independence. Stuck in a crumbling manor house on the fringe of a small town, she is thwarted by powers that conspire to protect, control and deceive her. But when her father goes missing in mysterious circumstances, Eliza’s […]
Arthur by Giles Kristian
The Saxons are now the lords of Britain. And yet the bards still sing of Arthur — ‘In our darkest time, when we need him most, shall he come again.’ Ageing mercenary Beran has no love of bards’ songs. Nor of people. Unless they are paying him to steal or kill. Now he has been […]
The Household by Stacey Halls
In 1847, in a quiet house in the countryside outside London, the finishing touches are being made to welcome a group of young women. The house and its location are top secret, its residents unknown to one another, but the girls have one thing in common: they are fallen. Offering refuge for prostitutes, petty thieves […]
The Soldier’s Stand by Eleanor Swift-Hook
Summer, 1626, and Europe is ablaze as the supporters of the exiled Elector Palatine, who was also briefly King of Bohemia, challenge Emperor Ferdinand. The Emperor’s new general, Wallenstein, has achieved a crushing victory over the feared mercenary commander Mansfeld at Dessau, but Danish King Christian IV is on the march in Lower Saxony. Amid […]