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World War I ended well for the Franklins, prosperous Clydeside shipbuilders. But trouble is brewing behind their respectable facade.

An eccentric young woman's love for a wild white stallion tempts her into using an ancient magic that overshadows her subsequent life and leads to her affair with the charismatic Louis XIV.

Rachel Smedling is not like other women in her isolated Pennine village: she is taller, stronger and weaves cloth like a man.

Both historical novel and family saga and set in 19th-century Chile, this story concerns Aurora del Valle's search for the mystery of her past, a trauma so brutal that it erased from her mind

Originally published as : Young lady with red hair.

In the early 1900s, the advent of coal and the resulting industrialization of the isolated Cumberland Mountain region of Kentucky and Virginia bring many changes to the feuding Tolliver and Fallin

Keara Michaels doesn't want to leave home in Ireland, but fate sends her first to Lancashire, then across the sea to Australia, pregnant and penniless.

A selection of short fiction written by Austen when she was a teenager.

Now a wealthy young widow, former peasant girl Siana Forbes has overcome her humble beginnings to become mistress of Cheverton Manor, the handsome estate which her infant son, Ashley, will one day

Calico Road runs through a tiny Lancashire hamlet up on the edge of the moors, miles from anywhere.

The Lazenders, a gilded family, have been the envy and pride of Britain for centuries. But Toby Lazender, their heir, is now mysteriously absent.

When the Second World War is declared, rich banker Henry Granville moves his family away from London. Even so, life for them remains turbulent.

Mr and Mrs Henry Granville are preparing to launch their daughters on to the London social scene with an extravagant coming-out ball.

Romance and family saga set in a 19th Century newspaper empire.

It is 1859. At age three, Eliza Forester is left motherless when her father orders his wife from the house. He keeps the child not out of love, but to spite his wife.