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Adele Russell was once a wealthy heiress, happily engaged to David, the Earl of Blaisdon, but when her father was ruined, she lost everything, including David. Now, working as a shop assistant in fashionable Milsom Street, she is shunned and scorned by the society that once embraced her. But when she finds an invitation to a forthcoming masked ball, Adele is tempted by the lures of her past once more. Both David and a mysterious Sir Mask attend the ball and Sir Mask is intent upon seducing her.

This fantastical historical novel, narrated by a child yet to be born, traces the lives of three generations of a Parsi family in India beginning in the late 1800s. The narrative follows the Khargat family from the intricacies of village life in the jungles of central India, to the complications of urban life in turbulent pre- and post-independence struggles, to contemporary diasporic realities in the United Kingdom and North America.

They blazed a trail of infamy, of murder and mayhem, defacing the glory of Australia's heritage with the wheelmarks of the Castlereagh Coach Company.

Saga set in medieval Britain telling of the lives of a group of men and women whose destinies are fatefully linked with the building of a cathedral.

Travel back to 1924 and experience the early days of group settlement in Northcliffe with Maggie Spencer, sharing her joys and sorrows.

At fourteen Simone Fleurier is sent to live a hard, impoverished life with her Aunt in Marseilles. Her dream is that one day she will be a famous singer and dancer. She discovers the local music hall and soon becomes the bright light of Paris. But Nazi troops occupy the city and Simone must make a decision that will lead her into great danger.

'Twopenny rainbows' continues the story of the younger sisters of Keara Michaels, the heroine of 'A Pennyworth of Sunshine', following their fortunes from nineteenth-century Ireland to the brave new world of Australia.

She came with courage and determination. This is the story of a young girl who came to the Avon Valley in Western Australia to be married at the end of the nineteenth century. Life was not easy, but she was supported by her neighbours, whose kindness at times of difficulty, was typical of country people to this day.

Fictional account of pioneering life in the Swan Valley.

It is 1385 and master mason Simon of Kineton is building his magnum opus : a great college to rival any in England. Six hundred years later, in the same city, Damia Miller has been employed to promote penniless Kineton and Dacre College. She realises that a grotesque wall-painting uncovered during renovations may hold the key to the ancient college's survival.