Norah Lofts

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

“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.”....

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....

“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"....

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"....

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 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....

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

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....

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....

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, at the Pollards Harvest Supper of 1817, Araminta Glover was seduced by Jan Honeywood, the outcome seemed inevitable....

The house was built in the Old Queen's time: built for an Elizabethan pirate who was knighted for the plunder he brought home....

The Coffee House was a warm, brightly lit place. The serving girls were pretty and the men who visited the rooms seemed polite enough. But still there were whispers....