Cynthia Harrod-Eagles – författare

1820: the landscape of England is undergoing sweeping change as the country pioneers the steam-driven machine age.The Morlands, too, face change: Cousin Africa returns from St Helena to startle society with her unconventional ideas; Lucy brings her sons home from their Grand Tour, brimming with ideas for their future. In Manchester, Sophie and Jasper meet fierce oppostion to their plans for re-housing the factory hands; while in London, Rosamund enters a bizarre agreement with her husband Marcus, with bitter consequences.And at Morland Place, James and Heloise watch their two sons approaching manhood. Benedict delights equally in love and locomotives, while Nicholas, the heir develops a taste for more unusual pleasures- and an impatience to claim his inheritance.

Makt och anseende är vad den dominerande och hårdnackade fårfarmaren Edward Morland eftersträvar mest av allt. Därför gifter han bort sin ende son i ett arrangerat äktenskap som kommer att bli upprinnelsen till Ätten Morland.

Sonen Robert idealiserar sin nya brud Eleanor, som är fattig men av förnäm börd och står under förmyndarskap av den inflytelserika familjen Beaufort. Men i hemlighet förtärs hon av en brinnande kärlek till Richard, hertigen av York …

Mot bakgrunden av de oroliga åren i 1400-talets mitt, när inbördeskriget Rosornas krig utkämpas i England, utvecklar sig denna passionerade saga om krig och våldsamma begär.

Begynnelsen är den första delen i brittiska Cytnhia Harrod-Eagles ”Morland-dynasti”, som hittills har fått 36 delar. Serien översattes till svenska på 80-talet, men finns nu äntligen tillgänglig igen, och passar perfekt till alla som älskade Sagan om isfolket.

A fatherless girl grows up a virtual prisoner in the shabby backwater of Kensington Palace, despised by her relations, bullied and insulted by her foolish mother''s evil genius. Only the core of stubbornness in her nature sustains her as she waits for the day of deliverance - the day she will become Queen of England.She is Victoria; this is her story, recorded in her own words in the last troubled year of her life.With humanity and humour the Queen Empress of half the world looks back over eighty crowded years, remembering domestic crisis and public triumph, war, revolution and the fall of dynasties; remembering most of all the great and abiding love that illuminated every aspect of her life.This is the autobiography Queen Victoria might have written, and reveals the private woman behind the public mask - quick tempered, proud and incurably honest; shy, vulnerable and always, indefatigably, amused.

Comfortable boredom ... or dangerous excitement?Anne Symons is content living with her widowed father in a sleepy Dorset town. She has a good job in a solicitor's office and a kind, reliable, good-looking boyfriend Joe. But when enigmatic, sophisticated Michael Conrad appears on the scene, she suddenly feels something was missing from her life. But should she really risk a safe future with loyal, adoring Joe for the dangerous allure and excitement of this fascinating stranger?First published as Never Love a Stranger, under a pseudonym, this is a new edition with a new introduction from the author.

The murder of a personal fitness trainer draws DCI Bill Slider and his team into a baffling investigation where nothing is as it first appears. Fitness trainer Erik Lingoss is found dead in his west London flat, his head smashed by one of his own dumbbells. His heartlessly-dumped girlfriend, blood on her clothes and hands, is the prime suspect. She had means, opportunity, and motive.But is the case as clear-cut as it seems? Handsome Erik Lingoss had clients in high places; and he seemed to engender powerful emotions. If it was a crime of passion, there was plenty of that to go round: love strong as death, jealousy cruel as the grave.Who did he let in to his flat that evening? Where is his missing mobile phone? Why is seven hundred pounds in cash stuffed under his pillow? The deeper Slider and his team dig, the clearer it becomes there's far more to this case than meets the eye.