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THE TEA PLANTER’S DAUGHTER

THE TEA PLANTER’S DAUGHTER
  • Author(s): Janet MacLeod Trotter
  • Location(s): Assam, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Lush, green, fragrant: the Indian hills of Assam are full of promise. But eighteen-year-old Clarissa Belhaven is full of worry. The family tea plantation is suffering, and so is her father, still grieving over the untimely death of his...

The Tea Rose

The Tea Rose
  • Author(s): Jennifer Donnelly
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th century

East London, 1888—a city apart. A place of shadow and light where thieves, whores, and dreamers mingle, where children play in the cobbled streets by day and a killer stalks at night, where bright hopes meet the darkest truths....

The Teashop Girls

The Teashop Girls
  • Author(s): Elaine Everest
  • Location(s): Margate
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): WW2

It is early 1940 and World War Two has already taken a hold on the country. Rose Neville works as a Lyon’s Teashop Nippy on the Kent coast alongside her childhood friends, the ambitious Lily and Katie, whose fiancé...

The Temple of the Muses

The Temple of the Muses
  • Author(s): Jane Davis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Georgian

London, 1780. As the city smoulders in the aftermath of the Gordon Riots, booksellers James and Dorcas Lackington resolve to fight despair not with charity, but with books. Convinced that reading is the surest path out of poverty, they...

The Temptation of Dragons

The Temptation of Dragons
  • Author(s): Chrys Cymri
  • Location(s): Northampton
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Today

Bishop Nigel smiled at me. ‘Holy water doesn’t harm vampires. Which is just as well, as it would make it impossible to baptise them.’ When I was asked by a dragon to give him the last rites, I never...

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  • Author(s): Anne Brontë
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious ‘tenant’ of the title, and her dissolute,...

The Tenth Gift

The Tenth Gift
  • Author(s): Jane Johnson
  • Location(s): Morocco, Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th Century and 2000s

Jane Johnson’s The Tenth Gift is an wonderfully escapist page-turner set in seventeenth century Cornwall and Morocco,based on spine-tinglingly shocking historical fact, with a romantic hidden love story at its heart. His parting gift to her was a new...

The Testimony of Alys Twist

The Testimony of Alys Twist
  • Author(s): Suzannah Dunn
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1500s

Arrested by her sister for treason, who in her household can Elizabeth trust? 1553: deeply-divided England rejoices as the rightful heir, Mary Tudor, sweeps to power on a tide of populist goodwill. But the people should have been careful...

The Thief Taker

The Thief Taker
  • Author(s): Janet Gleeson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Agnes Meadowes is cook to the Blanchards of Foster Lane, the renowned London silversmiths. Preparing jugged hare, oyster loaves, almond soup, and other delicacies for the family has given her a dependable life for herself and her son. But...

The Thief’s Daughter

The Thief’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Victoria Cornwall
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Hide from the thief-taker, for if he finds you, he will take you away … Eighteenth-century Cornwall is crippled by debt and poverty, while the gibbet casts a shadow of fear over the land. Yet, when night falls, free...

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