Historical Novels

An old, impecunious nobleman lives with his family in his shambles of a country castle, and to make good his failed finances, means to marry off his eldest daughter to a wealthy but disreputable rake – who, on visiting to meet his intended, immediately exercises his roving eye. The trouble is, he also comes with a loaded past that reflects very luridly on his present and has a cynical family of his own.

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288,375 words

This is the sequel to ‘Silly Little Sisters’, with marriage, mischief, mayhem and unprincipled activity confused with stalwart loyalty, with two stories running through this  novel.

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Dr. Barrieuw keeps a charity hospital in Houndsditch in a vile part of London for folk whom the rest of society chuses to forget – and for anyone else who needs his services.  On one of his occasional forays outside his dark world, he meets a rich spinster, Theophilia, who runs her own affairs and is used to kicking into shape everyone who dares cross or disobey her.  Yet Barrieuw’s hospital is becoming perilously short of space, and his own private fortune is running out … with cameo appearances by William Hogarth and others!

309,639 words

His jingle-brained cousin having been thrown into gaol for debt, Herriard goes running to his friend Edwin for help and intercession in various directions.  As all of them belong to the upper orders and Beau Brummell has just begun his reign over the World of Fashion, it is certainly not the thing to go visiting prisons or anywhere, really, beyond Charing Cross.  Very reluctantly, Edwin shifts himself accordingly, and while loitering in a gaol-house corridor, he sees a fresh, young charity worker, who smells of soap … and who comes with strange and mysterious baggage.  Edwin just cannot resist.

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Years ago, this writer read one of Georgette Heyer’s most popular novels and liked it very much.  She still likes it and it is no less a superb work; nevertheless she thought that perhaps it did not go far enough in itself and in the circumstances set out therein.  So she wrote what she believed it could have been, althô the characters changed in many ways, as did their initial respective situations.  Set against a backcloth of Louis XV’s Versailles, the Battle of Fontenoy, the coming of the philosophes and the rise of La Pompadour, here is a story of secrets and adventures – and the urge to lampoon humanity has been irresistible.

470,752 words

Captured as a child by nomad bandits in the Thar Desert of India, lovely young Merodonée escapes during a British Army raid and has to be transported home to France. On the way by ship, news reaches her that there is a revolution going on in her native land. Thus truly begins her new life, when she is either loved or hated by all who meet her, and whereby she tries to make up her own mind about her future, amid many misadventures.

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While he was being born, Pepin’s feckless drunken father, a vain and penniless aristocrat, named him after Charlemagne’s papa, Pepin the Short, and after that, had nothing much more to do with him. After a childhood and adolescence of heavily shifting fortunes, he finds his way forward in a strange new branch of an old profession. However, Fate, if not humanity in all its inglorious forms, tend to stretch out tripwires.

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Domefront is the superb palatial country residence, filled with beautiful treasures, belonging to the shy, retiring Mr. Ussher, whose peaceful life seems to be perfect – except that he has no heirs, but for a rather unscrupulous cousin. A near disaster persuades him to try and correct this situation, with unexpected results, and the problem of loyalty.

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Gwen is resolutely, ebulliently, arrogantly Welsh. She makes a visit to England to stay with an old friend near Canterbury. While on a visit to the Cathedral, she has a nasty mishap in the street with a rude and fancy fellow. On she goes to London at the invitation of her aunt to do the Season in the World of Fashion, where she repeatedly bites off more than she can chew – or does she? Worse, that visit to the Cathedral is repeatedly in the back of her mind for a good reason.

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Rich heiress the Honourable Eloise Jarvis moves into her new country home and tries to make the acquaintance of the local gentry, among them Margaret, the neighbouring Squire’s poor niece, and the haughty and elegant Lady Coltishall with her two daughters and a rather odd niece-of-sorts. If Eloise would like that they become her cronies, she finds that they each have a different agenda, as does she, for that matter, part of which is annoying one of her trustees, the wealthy, fashionable, dashing Duke of Kenilworth. Basically, there are three stories going through this.

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