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(0)Karen Brooks
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In a world where no-one can be trusted and secrets are currency, one woman stands without fear. Mallory Bright is the only daughter of London?s master locksmith. For her there is no lock too elaborate, no secret too well kept. Sir Francis Walsingham, spymaster and protector of Queen Elizabeth - the last of the Tudor monarchs - and her realm, is quick to realise Mallory?s talent and draws her into his world of intrigue, danger and deception. With her...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
1703. The wild east coast of Scotland. Returning to her home town of Pittenweem, fishwife and widow Sorcha McIntyre knows she faces both censure and mistrust. After all, this is a country where myth and legend are woven into the fabric of the everyday, a time when those who defy custom like Sorcha are called to account. It is dangerous to be a clever woman who 'doesn't know her place' in Pittenweem - a town rife with superstition. So, when a young...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
When Rosamund Tomkins enters the world she is so different, with her darkling eyes and strange laughter, that the midwives believe she will lead a charmed life. But Rosamund?s life is set to be anything but enchanted. Born into poverty, brutalised and ignored by her family, it is only when she is married off to a nobleman that her life undergoes a wondrous transformation. Clever, quick and irrepressible, Rosamund soon becomes the darling of the haut...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In the middle ages, a famous poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary classic. But what if the woman in question had a chance to tell her own version? England, 1364:�When married off at aged twelve to an elderly farmer, brazen redheaded Eleanor quickly realizes it won?t matter what she says or does, God is not on her side-or any poor woman?s for that matter. But then again, Eleanor was born under the joint signs of Venus...