Norah Lofts

“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"....

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....

The house was built in the Old Queen's time: built for an Elizabethan pirate who was knighted for the plunder he brought home....

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

Over two generations, and throughout the turbulent years of the Civil War, Pargeters comes to stand as a symbol of unity for a household divided by conflicting political loyalties and abandoned by its menfolk....

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

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....

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

A Wayside Tavern tells the story of a Suffolk drinking place from the end of the Roman occupation of Britain, until the present day....

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

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....

“All eyes and hair” a courtier had said disparagingly of her...

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

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

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

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....

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....

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....