Norah Lofts

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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

For the Spender family, the ancient, beautifully kept house had seemed a godsend....

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....

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....

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....

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"....

Ataxerxes, king of Persia, needed a wife. This powerful warrior lord picked the one girl who would have given anything to have been passed over....

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....

“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"....

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

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

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