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  • To See A Fine Lady
    Norah Lofts
    At the Pollards’ Harvest Supper of 1817, Araminta Glover was seduced by Jan Honeywood and the outcome seemed inevitable. Araminta, like so many servant girls, would marry her poor suitor and prepare to raise a large family on nine shillings a week. But Araminta-seventeen years old-was determined enough to rebel against the pattern of impoverished rural life and, putting marriag...
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    11,80 €

  • Madselin
    Norah Lofts
    New and brutal Norman overlords have turned the world upside-down in Eleventh century England. Eitel, the Lord of Bradwald, is dead in battle and one of King William’s armourers is now in charge; Rolf, a man inexperienced in ruling others and uncertain of his way. When Madselin, the young and proud widow of Eitel comes as a penitent asking to bury her husband’s body, Rolf sees ...
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  • The Day Of The Butterfly
    Norah Lofts
    When Daisy Holt is dismissed from her post as a nursemaid she sets off cheerfully into the jungle of mid-Victorian London to make her fortune. Kitty Hammond, proprietress of the ’select establishment’ off Leicester Square discovers her and is quick to realise that Daisy’s radiant beauty and talent as a dancer would make her a useful attraction in her ’respectable’ brothel. Ther...
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  • The Story Of Maude Reed
    Norah Lofts
    ’I do not want to be a lady. I want to be a wool merchant.’In the mid-fifteenth century all women, but especially girls like Maude Reed, were subject to the whims and wishes of their parents until they were married. No argument allowed. So 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 learns court...
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    8,82 €

  • The Road To Revelation
    Norah Lofts
    Kevin Furmage was a visionary... a man whose burning obsession was to make a mark upon the world. When he heard the rumour of a new mountain route, and acquired a hand-drawn map, to the fertile land of California, he became determined to be the first man to lead a group of pioneers along the trail.In the wagon train was a strange and ill-assorted group of people. Madame Jurer w...
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  • A Wayside Tavern
    Norah Lofts
    The little tavern seemed abandoned when Paulus and his men arrived; Roman soldiers desperate for food and shelter were grateful for what they found. There was more: a female slave left behind, sick unto death and hidden behind the cellar. Paulus kept her secret from the others and when he was injured as the soldiers moved on, Gilda in turn saved his life.So began the saga of th...
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  • Here Was A Man
    Norah Lofts
    From one of the original leading ladies of historical fiction, this reissue of her classic first novel captures the life of Sir Walter Raleigh-a man of extraordinary ambition who dreamt of carving out an empire in the New World to lay at the feet of Elizabeth I. But the Queen was equally determined to keep this handsome, witty young man at her side. Through years of frustration...
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    11,72 €

  • Pargeters
    Norah Lofts
    Norah Lofts’ Mesmerising Final Novel.When wealthy Penelope Mercer fell in love she would not take no for an answer. So, Adam Woodley, a simple pargeter, who had created the decorations for her father’s new house, was to become her husband. A pragmatic man, he had nothing to lose as the love of his own life had died. This unconventional marriage produced a son and a daughter and...
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    13,97 €

  • The Old Priory
    Norah Lofts
    When his ship docked, unexpectedly, in Yarmouth, sailor Arthur Tresize’s life was transformed into a surreal-seeming fairy story of unexpected wealth, a cursed piece of land and whispers of witchcraft. Buying up the disused land of the monks at Ockley in Suffolk, he built himself a house from the remnants of the old ruined Priory and settled down to raise a family. But the magi...
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    11,02 €

  • Gad’s Hall Omnibus
    Norah Lofts
    GAD’S HALLWhen a house comes up for sale at a ridiculously low price there has to be a catch. Doesn’t there? Some sort of legal problem. More prosaically, rising damp or subsidence. But Gad’s Hall had none of these problems; it was modernised and in good condition. Mr. Thorley, the vendor, had his reasons for the sale and the price so Jill and Bob Spender were happy to make the...
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    16,90 €

  • Charlotte
    Norah Lofts
    When the body of four-year-old John Vincent is discovered, hidden in a midden, the already unhappyCornwall family begins to unravel. With no obvious reason for his murder, a scapegoat must be found andhis elder half-sister Charlotte, the sleepwalker, neatly fits the bill. After facing the horror of a trial by jury, Charlotte is found not guilty but suspicion still follows her a...
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    13,11 €

  • The Lonely Furrow
    Norah Lofts
    Henry Tallboys: The eldest son of Sir Godfrey and Lady Sybilla Tallboys is tied to the plough and scratching a living on Knight’s Acre. Henry’s stubbornness and honesty means he even puts aside much-needed money for a missing brother long believed dead.Joanna Serriff: The daughter of an Arabian woman who saved Sir Godfrey and born at Knight’s Acre. Joanna is heiress to fabulous...
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    14,53 €

  • The Homecoming
    Norah Lofts
    Sir Godfrey Tallboys:Battered and bruised from years as a captive in Spain after an ill-fated crusade, this former knight-errant has returned home to Knight’s Acre to his wife and children. But with him is theMoorish slave girl to whom he owes his life—pregnant with his child. Lady Sybilla Tallboys:Exhausted with struggling to keep her children fed and poverty at bay, Sir Godfr...
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    13,73 €

  • Knight’s Acre
    Norah Lofts
    Sir Godfrey Tallboys: A knight-errant at the top of his profession and with little thought beyond the next tourney. A long way from beingwealthy but in need of a house for his pretty young wife.Lady Sybilla Tallboys: A loving wife, tolerant of her husband’s shortcomings—and with a strong desire for a home where she could raise theirfour children instead of relying on the charit...
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    12,31 €

  • Bless This House
    Norah Lofts
    The beautiful house was built for a pirate rewarded by Good Queen Bess for the plunder that he brought home. But tragedy was born within its walls before Thomas Rowhedge even took possession and its memory remained in an icy atmosphere of despair by the window seat in the hall.It was home to a witch who could charm animals and a ghost who challenged everything but true love. It...
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    14,49 €

  • Michael And All Angels
    Norah Lofts
    Will Oakley, landlord of The Fleece, had two daughters, as different in character as they were in appearance. Myrtle was vivid, bright and lovely, a dreamer with a generous spirit and a zest for life. Harriet was ugly—not in form or figure but when she turned round and men saw her pockmarked face they shuddered. And their revulsion had slowly corroded her soul, destroyed compas...
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    10,87 €

  • Hester Roon
    Norah Lofts
    The Fleece Inn stood where the three roads joined—to London, to Norwich and to the sea. Its trade was prosperous, itshospitality famous and its host, fat Job, was jolly and generous—to his guests.      To his servants Job was cruel and menacing and to Ellie Roon, the most menial servant at the Fleece, he was a figure ofterror. Ellie was used to being shouted at and bullied, but...
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  • ELEANOR THE QUEEN
    NORAH LOFTS
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  • Eleanor The Queen
    Norah Lofts
    Eleanor of Aquitaine, heir to of one of the largest and wealthiest duchies in Europe, was headstrong but wise and had mastered all the rules of the political game before she was twenty. She needed to be stronger than any nobleman and, in a world where a woman’s place was as a wife and mother, she fought continually to hold and wield power as a ruler in her own right. Despite be...
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    11,59 €

  • The Lost Queen
    Norah Lofts
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  • The House at Sunset
    Norah Lofts
    With the coming of the 20th century, the house was in decline-soon to be broken into apartments and shops, including a café serving the increasingly poorer passing trade. For Public Health Inspector Jonathan Roper it was a disgrace that should be demolished without further ado.But whether they loved it or hated it, the the Old Vine had affected every person who came into contac...
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    13,05 €

  • The House at Old Vine
    Norah Lofts
    The doomed love story of Josiana Greenwood and Walter Rancon sets the scene as the destiny of the great Suffolk house known as the Old Vine continues to unfold. Haunted by the stubbornness of its founder, Martin Reed, and the mystical gypsy blood of his wife, their descendants, both innocent and guilty, are caught up in a world of witch-hunts, wars and revolution over two centu...
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    15,27 €

  • The Town House
    Norah Lofts
    Can a house built from the ashes of tragedy ever be a place of lasting happiness? Can the hereditary mix of wild gypsy lore, fierce independence, magic and mystery truly settle in a respectable home?The Town House is the first in Norah Lofts’ enduringly popular Suffolk Trilogy about the Old Vine at Baildon. Built in the late fourteenth century by Martin Reed, a runaway serf who...
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    14,46 €

  • The Lute Player
    Norah Lofts
    Legend has long told the story of Blondel the Lute Player who foundthe lost soldier-king Richard Coeur-de-Lion-kidnapped on the wayback from the great crusade to the Holy Land.Blondel found his king by travelling for months across Europesinging the first part of a love-song which Richard and he hadcomposed together. One day, from behind castle walls, the voice ofRichard respond...
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  • Scent of Cloves
    Norah Lofts
    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 any possible lasting happiness depended entirely on a ’glove marriage’ to a man who was no more than a name.The Dutch East Indies, in the seventeenth century, were lands of legendary riches; of ’nutmeg...
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  • The Devil in Clevely
    Norah Lofts
    Sir Charles Augustus Shelmadine was an autocrat. He ruled his village with a firm but kindly hand - instructing his tenants on their crops, their children and their love affairs. When he died and the new Squire came, the village stirred uneasily. For the new Squire had strange ideas - and even stranger friends - people like Mr. Mundford who never seemed to grow any older and wh...
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    14,48 €

  • How Far to Bethlehem?
    Norah Lofts
    Melchior had never seen anything like it; the star was so bright, so full of tragedy and glory. He knew at once that it was his task to find the child and warn its parents. But Melchior was old, poor and unwise in the ways of men. Providence took him to the barbarian king, Gaspar, who wanted to know if this great King in the East would be a threat to his empire. It was Balthaza...
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  • Jassy
    Norah Lofts
    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 she inspired love and admiration or furious hatred. Nothing in between. And somehow Jassy could transform even those who loved her into her enemies.Barney Hatton, the disposessed heir of Mortiboys, loved her but not enou...
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    12,27 €

  • Esther
    Norah Lofts
    Ataxerxes, King of Persia needed a wife. This warrior lord was so powerful that he could make his choice from all his Empire.He picked the one girl who would have given anything to have been passed over, a Jewish scholar, Esther, from the back streets of his capital, Shushan. To a King bored by the chattering of women wreathed in musky scents, this changeling was a breath of fr...
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    9,47 €

  • Here Was a Man
    Norah Lofts
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