Greek Wedding

Jane Aiken Hodge

Fawcett-Crest

Watch The Wall, My Darling

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Coronet Books

The winding stair

Romance

Historical

Hodder&Stoughton

When the invitation came, Juana Brett was delighted. A chance to escape from the grey dankness of England, a chance to visit her happy childhood home at the Castle of the Rock, and, above all, the opportunity to escape the petty tyranny of her stepmother.But when she arrived in Portugal, Juana realised that the implications which lay behind Napoleon's proposed attack on Portugal contained great urgency in relation to her own life there. Caught up in the affairs of state, aware that the trip to Portugal has been 'arranged', enmeshed in the machinations of the terrifying Sons of the Star, she finds that even at the Castle on the Rock the atmosphere is charged with doubt and suspicion.

The Winding Stair

Camilla Forest finds herself alone on a muddy road, left to fend for herself, when the carriage of Lord Leominster pulls up alongside. This sets off an agreement to a marriage of convenience with Camilla and Lavenham, the Lord. They move to Portugal, along with his sister, Chloe. Camilla finds herself falling in love with her husband. But will her French brother ruin everything? Jane Aiken Hodge was born in the USA, brought up in the UK and read English at Oxford. She received a master's degree from Radcliffe College, Harvard University. Before her books became her living she worked as a civil servant, journalist, publishers' reader and a reviewer. She has written lives of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer as well as a book about women in the Regency period, Passion and Principle. But her main output has been over twenty historical novels set in the eighteenth century, including Polonaise, The Lost Garden, and Savannah Purchase, the beloved third volume of a trilogy set during and after the American War of Independence. More recently she has written novels for Severn House Publishers. She enjoys the borderland between mystery and novel, is pleased to be classed as a feminist writer, and is glad that there is neither a glass ceiling nor a retiring age in the writers' world. She was the daughter of Conrad Aiken and sister of Joan Aiken.

Marry In Haste

Genre Fiction

Maulever Hall

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Watch the Wall, My Darling

Marian is in her mid-thirties, and trying to get over the shock of her eighteen-year-old twins leaving her to live with their father in the USA. As a distraction she takes a job looking after a younger woman, Stella, on a coach tour to Greece. It seems to be the answer to all her worries - financial and otherwise - although there is some mystery surrounding Stella's background.As the tour gets underway, strange things begin happen, including some serious accidents. People become suspicious, and nobody is at all sure whom they can trust. Marion becomes increasingly worried, both for her own sake and for Stella's, and at the same time tries to resist her increasing attraction to a friendly classics professor who is also on the tour.A suspenseful thriller, tense and concise, that builds interesting characters with ease.

Strangers in Company (Coronet Books)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Runaway Bride

The romantic adventures of a reluctant Regency heiress…   When the reputable George Ferris asks for Miss Jennifer Purhcas’s hand in marriage, Jennifer’s Uncle and George’s eccentric aunt, the Duchess of Lewes, believe the match is a perfect one.   However, no one thinks to ask for Jennifer’s feelings on the matter.   As it turns out, the high-spirited and defiant Regency heriess insists there is no way she will be forced to marry the odious George Ferris, whom she has never even met.   Running away she joins the Laverstoke family as a a penniless governess.  However, it is not long before the naturally fiery Jennifer finds herself in some difficult to explain situations, all too frequently witnessed by the masterful Mainwaring, guardian to the Laverstoke children.   But that is only the beginning of Jennifer’s adventures, and with her Uncle determined to seek out and reclaim his missing niece – and her fortune – it becomes increasingly difficult to keep her true identity hidden from the world…      'Runaway Bride' is a brilliantly told story of love and ambition.    ‘All the lightness of Georgette Heyer and with added substance besides’ - New Statesman      Jane Aiken Hodge (December 4, 1917 – June 17, 2009) was an American-born British writer.

Against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars and the glitter of the court of Naples, this captivating novel unfolds the story of Helen Telfair, a young English woman in search of herself. Helen, intelligent, witty, rebellious, had sworn never to marry. But when she found herself with child after a brutal encounter with a stranger, she agreed to marry the wealthy and dissolute Lord Henry Merritt. Helen, neglected by her husband, felt very much alone—until she met Emma, the celebrated Lady Hamilton. No two women were less alike. Emma was uneducated, sensual, and by sheer will and unsurpassed beauty had catapulted herself into a brilliant marriage and into a scandalous affair with the famous Lord Nelson. But fate joined these two unforgettable women in a drama of intrigue and war and Helen's destiny was newly shaped by a great and exotic moment in history. Born near Cambridge, Massachusetts to Pulitzer prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken and his first wife, the writer Jessie McDonald. Jane Hodge was 3 years old when her family moved to Great Britain, settling in Rye, East Sussex, where her younger sister, Joan, who would become a novelist and a children’s writer, was born. Their parents divorced in 1929. From 1935, Jane Hodge read English at Somerville College, Oxford University, and in 1938 she took a second degree in English at Radcliffe College, her mother’s alma mater. She was a civil servant for a time, and also worked for Time Magazine, before returning to the UK in 1947. Her works of fiction include historical novels and contemporary detective novels. In 1972 she renounced her United States citizenship and became a British subject. For many years a believer in the right of people to end their own lives, Hodge chose to end her own by means of an overdose in June 2009. The Times obituary (pub. July 25, 2009) stated that she left ‘a letter expressing her deep distress that she had felt unable to discuss her plans with her daughters without risking making them accessories.’

Shadow Of A Lady

Hodder & Stoughton Publishers

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