Allison Busby: 459 books

‘FILLED WITH MAGIC, LOVE AND THE BONDS OF FAMILY . . . THOROUGHLY ENGAGING . . . WILL WHISK ANY READERS AWAY TO A PLACE WHERE ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE’ ROMANTIC TIMES BOOK REVIEWS In a forgotten nook of Cambridge stands a little shop. Thousands of sheets of beautiful paper and hundreds of exquisite...

Jude is the owner of a unique antiques shop in Cambridge. She makes it her mission to match customers with the special something that they are missing, a talisman to bring them what their heart desires. Unfortunately, Jude’s life is not overflowing with the love she wishes for. However, when she...

‘Evie?’ Hester breathed, incredulously, the torch beam wavering. Then, louder, ‘What you doin’ back ’ere?’ The girl was bruised. Her clothes filthy, her hair tangled, her face tear-stained. Barely recognisable, but Evie. Definitely Evie. It is mid-December 1944 when eighteen-year-old...

November 1920. Russia may have endured the Revolution, but a brutal civil war still rages. As brothers are pitted against each other in battle, thousands of Russians flee as the threat draws ever closer. As distant relatives of the Romanovs, the Kirilov family is never far from suspicion, and closer...

Justinian desperately wants the lost provinces returned to his rule but must first dispatch his brave general, Belisaurius to fight the Persians in the East. Justinian grows concerned that Belisaurius will grow successful and courageous in his feats, thus becoming a threat to his power and person....

As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week ‘There is always in our minds the hope that we may find again those golden unhastening days and wake up and dream’ In this beautifully nostalgic memoir, eminent author Angela Thirkell recalls in rich detail the three houses in which she...

Cambridge, 1898. When the unidentified body of a young woman is found floating in the River Cam, journalist Patrick O’Sullivan calls on one woman he is sure will solve the mystery: Mrs Vanessa Weatherburn. Vanessa agrees to take up the challenge, but, with a victim as well as a murderer to identify,...

1901, Wiltshire. Young Kathleen Keller is being forced into marriage by her cruel father, with a man she despises. In an act of desperation, she runs away in a bid for a safer life, although one she might not have otherwise chosen. But when tragedy strikes, Kathleen is left vulnerable and one man...

Frustrated with the sheer ennui of London life and looking for fresh excitement, Anthony Anstruther and his girlfriend leave a nightclub to find a drunken Russian tramp playing noughts and crosses in chalk on Anthony’s car. This seemingly innocent enterprise spurs on a chain of events involving...

Sinister secrets are revealed in a sleepy village Thea Osborne’s latest house-sitting assignment is a little different to the rest. She finds herself in the village of Chedworth making an inventory of Rita Wilshire’s possessions after she has moved into a care home. All goes to plan, with...

‘A clever plot, with lots of laughs along the way’ Daily Mail Robin Pagham is dead – drowned in a sailing accident. Everyone’s reaction is that he must have been drunk, after all, that was what he did best. But while attending Robin’s funeral, crime writer Ethelred Tressider sees...

North West India, July 1897. Simon and Alice Fonthill are travelling with their old friend Jenkins to Marden, India for a 50th anniversary party with the Guides Corps. What begins as a peaceful journey becomes a dangerous battle as they find themselves ambushed by four Pathans. On arrival at Marden,...

The British Empire has reached its probable apogee: so much of the world map is coloured red and the sun never set on its boundaries. But Lord Curzon, the ambitious Viceroy of India, has different views. Tibet, the mountainous region on the Raj’s borders, irritates him: the Dalai Lama never replies...

The year is 1900 and China is once again plunged into barbaric chaos. The Boxers, a cult of young peasants who blame the foreign barbarians living in their country – particularly the missionaries – for the nation’s ills, are rampaging through the country, killing any foreigners. China’s Dowager...