There was no doubt about it – Bella Parkinson was the most promising actress and a success. Rupert Henriques was rich enough to buy her every theatre in London if she wanted it and couldn’t wait to ma
'The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.'So says John Berry, son of a h
It is a time of political unrest in Great??Britain. And behind the Iron Curtain an insidious plot??is being hatched, a plan so incendiary that even??the KGB is ignorant of its??existence--Aurora, the
This is an account of life in Russia before, during, and immediately after the Revolution, culminating with the author's escape to Scotland. It is a story of two families, separated in culture and geo
Bridget Dean Mordaunt was a woman of consequence in her own part of the world.??Inheriting her father's businesses at the age of nineteen, by the time she was twenty-three in 1880, she was running the
Deric Longden's mother had a dotty way with words and a private brand of logic. She was first featured in "Diana's Story", which Longden wrote some years after his wife's death. Now the author's mothe
Annabella Lagrange was the only child of a wealthy family, owners of a glass-works in the North-East of England. When Annabella was seven, she thought the world a delightful place to live in, and onl
John Berry is a son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times
Hebe listens in the darkness of the hall to a family conference. Her stern and hypocritical grandfather has convinced her three prissy sisters and their successful husbands that Hebe's unexpected preg
The Grey House is the answer to everything in Alice Jordan’s perfect life. The beautiful eighteenth-century building with its orchard and paddock, the village of friendly eccentrics seems the ultimate
