Sequel to Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, following the fortunes of Hareton Earnshaw and Cathy Linton, and the passions and torment which resurface at Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.
Historical Fiction
- Author:THORNE, NicolaSummary:
- Author:FURST, AlanSummary:
Alan Furst again proves himself the master of his proven terrain - behind the lines of Nazi occupation in France during WWII. Leading on from the successful The world at night, this thrilling tale of espionage sees Jean Casson broke,...
- Author:Leslie, DorisSummary:
Sophia Dorothea is the unhappy young wife of Prince George of Hanover. When she falls in love with a Swedish adventurer, her downfall is inevitable .
- Author:POPE, DudleySummary:
Young Capt. Ramage, recently married, hopes to settle down for few quiet months with his new wife but Nelson asks for him by name and soon he is caught up on the great battle of Trafalgar.
- Author:POPE, DudleySummary:
Capt. Ramage and the crew of the frigate 'Calypso' engage French battleships and Barbary Coast pirates in this swashbuckling novel of the high seas.
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Carrie Preston is used to hard work - oldest of ten, with an imcompetent mother and a drunken father, she struggles to find food for the younger children. But nothing could have prepared her for the day fate deals her family the...
- Author:RHODES, ElviSummary:
From a very early age Chloe always got what she wanted. At the age of eighteen the northern town of her birth was definitely not what she wanted. So she moved south to Brighton where life was more to her liking but not always as she...
- Author:WHITMEE, JeanneSummary:
When Imogen Jameson is injured in a London bomb blast and mistakenly reported as one of the fatalities, she sees this as an opportunity to escape from a violent marriage and assume the identity of one of the victims.
- Author:THOMPSON, E. VSummary:
Cornwall, 1854: Alice Rowe is rescued from the workhouse by the Rev. Arnold Markham to work in his parsonage as a housemaid. When the Reverend dies of a sudden heart attack, she faces an uncertain future.
- Author:Ward, LizaSummary:
Liza Ward's spellbinding first novel is told from the very different points of view of three narrators mysteriously linked by a shocking crime and their efforts to heal the past. Based on the Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann...
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Life in 1905 is hard for the illegitimate Mary Ann. It rapidly becomes worse when her new stepfather begins to interfere with her. Sent away at fifteen to bear his child, she meets Gabriel Clough, who helps her escape to Blackpool...
- Author:Jacobs, AnnaSummary:
Taking a job in a munitions factory during the first World War, Lizzie Kershaw finds independence from her abusive soldier husband and the promise of a new love, which is compromised by her husband's impending return.
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Eva Kershaw is happy living with her dear friend Alice, who has been like a mother to her. But Alice is dying and Eva is distressed by the unexpected arrival of Gus Blake, Alice's nephew.
- Author:DOUGHTY, AnneSummary:
Clare Hamilton is just nine years old when her childhood is abruptly ended with the death of both her parents in the typhoid epidemic of 1946. When her Granny Scott dies, she seizes her chance to return to Salter's Grange to take...
- Author:ANDREWS, VirginiaSummary:
Olivia was awakened by an unearthly wail coming from Belinda's bedroom. It was the tragic night that their father would forbid them to speak of ever again. The final, shattering conclusion to the Logan series.
- Author:Leslie, DorisSummary:
The life and times of the Countess of Blessington and the well known men who were her lovers, in the early 19th Century.
- Author:STEWART, MarySummary:
An English girl becomes governess to a young French boy and discovers his life is threatened.
- Author:ANDREWS, LynSummary:
A fire destroys the modest coal haulage business their father Jack has built, leaving Jack broken and his family wondering how they will survive.
- Author:MACHIN, JeannieSummary:
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...
- Author:Houser, John C.Summary:
When bullies chase Jonah Winfield to the front step of Avakian Music, owner Davoud Avakian intervenes and offers Jonah sanctuary among the lush chords of the Music Box’s Steinway Grand. Jonah’s sexuality isn’t a problem for Avakian, but...