Norah Lofts

“All eyes and hair” a courtier had said disparagingly of her...

Forced to flee Revolutionary France after the brutal guillotining of her beloved father....

“It was in the first week of October in the year 1391 that I first came face to face with the man who owned me"....

The House at Old Vine is the second in a trilogy of novels by Norah Lofts about the inhabitants of a Suffolk house from the late 14th century to the middle of the 20th....

Julia Ashley was born to a life of dramatic twists and tragedy. Her future and any possible lasting happiness depended entirely on a "glove marriage"....

“At the age of seven I was a skilful pickpocket. I could sew neatly, write a tolerable hand, make a curtsey and a correct introduction, dance a little and play simple tunes on the harpsichord.”....

In the autumn of 1817, the arrival of the Ipswich coach and its occupants – a strange, ill-assorted company – changed the lives of those who lived at the Fleece Inn forever....

Sir Godfrey Tallboys had come home from the Crusades....

Out of the courts of 12th-century England strode the legendary figure of Richard of England leading his knights onto the Saracen battlefields, inspired by a vision of the Holy Land....

The Wars of the Roses were over, but for Henry Tallboys the battle for survival went on....

Sir Godfrey Tallboys was a knight-errant, famous for his success at tourneys....

Thus the future of Caroline Matilda, youngest sister of George III....

Wherever destiny or chance took the young Scottish rebel, he carried with him the dream of Braidlowrie - Braidlowrie, the home of the Lowries - the home from which he was forever exiled....

This is the story of Sir Walter Raleigh's relationship with the two women who dominated his life: Elizabeth, his queen, and Bess, her lady-in-waiting and his secret wife....

When young John Vincent died, the outward respectability of the Cornwall household was undermined....

A Wayside Tavern tells the story of a Suffolk drinking place from the end of the Roman occupation of Britain, until the present day....

When Daisy Holt was dismissed from her post as a nursemaid she set off cheerfully into the jungle of mid-Victorian London....

Isabella of Spain was a great woman, a great Queen. Crown of Aloes is presented as a personal chronicle....

When William the Conqueror wished to reward his armourer, he made him a grant of land - land worked by freemen and already belonging to a Saxon lord....

No one at Gad’s Hall could admit what they knew about the room in the attic....