" ... the wishes, the hopes, the confidence, the predictions of the small band of true friends who witnessed the ceremony, were fully answered in the perfect happiness of the union." Thus the last line of Jane Austen's Emma. A year later, Emma and Knightley are still living at Hartfield,... (learn more about this book)
Born to a diplomat father and a mystically inclined mother, Henry glides through public school, Oxford and the Foreign Office with the same ease and elegance that characterise his numerous love affairs and, at first, his marriage to flame-haired Flavia. Then, somewhere, something goes wrong. (learn more about this book)
A story of family ties and emotional turmoil. (learn more about this book)
Chapters of Gold is a book of meditations on the life of Our Lady for modern busy people today. The short chapters are based on an episode in the life of Our Lady, the Annunciation, The Birth of Christ, the Finding of Christ in the Temple right through to the witness to the Resurrection of... (learn more about this book)
8vo. Light shelfwear. Ffep has been cut out. Stamp to side pegs. Dw has light creasing/wear. npc. Light soiling. (learn more about this book)
In this lavishly entertaining fiction, the British author of Loving Attitudes turns her fertile imagination to unfolding five psychologically astute love stories. Each features a different pair named Theo and Matilda, a different period of English history and a constant site, Abbeyfields, which... (learn more about this book)