Rosalind Laker

The lives and destinies of four generations of determined women are set against the splendor of Versailles through the reigns of France's most spectacular Bourbon kings, from Marguerite, the peasant girl who becomes part of the royal court of the Sun King, to Rose, who becomes lady-in-waiting and confidante to Marie Antoinette. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

To Dance with Kings

Beautiful Julia Pallister finds herself torn between two very different men--architect Christopher Wren and sensual Adam Warrender--in a story set in England between 1641 and 1723

Circle of Pearls

Within the walls of the Ospedale della Pietà, eighteenth-century Venice's music school for orphaned girls, three children--Adrianna, Elena, and Marietta--become fast friends and grow up to experience lives of passion, betrayal, and heartbreak. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

A Novel

The Venetian Mask

Sophie Delcourt travels to England to try to make a living in the sugar industry that her father taught her, and to protect her young charge, heir to an estate embattled due to the French Revolution.--

The Sugar Pavilion

Chronicles a young woman's rise to the top of the fashion world of nineteenth-century France and England and portrays life in a period couture house

Banners of Silk

After losing her husband in World War II, an English widow finds a new life—and the promise of new love—in Norway . . . When Anna Harvik travels to Norway in 1946 in order to visit her late husband’s father, she intends to make it a quick visit. The country is only just recovering from five cruel years of Nazi occupation, and she expects to find it a cold and bitter place. But when she is offered a house in a secluded valley in which to stay, she slowly finds herself warming to the people around her, and learning about their experiences and history. Soon, she meets a man who may offer her a chance to start over, in this romantic saga that captures the emotions and drama of a world moving past upheaval and into a new future.

The House by the Fjord

"A major Brecht play in an outstanding translation with an expert and up-to-date preface." -- Eric Bentley ..". a fine translation.... Jones has handled Brecht's meters with great skill." -- Choice

What the Heart Keeps

Claudine's Daughter

Determined to become a painter and accepting an apprenticeship with the great artist Jan Vermeer, Francesca Visser's dream is shattered when her father--a struggling artist--arranges a marriage between her and Ludolf Van Deventer, a wealthy and unscrupulous shipbroker, in order to pay back a debt. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

The Golden Tulip

A Máscara Veneziana

“Filled with rich period detail, this historical romance will appeal to readers who enjoy learning about other cultures and times.” —Booklist In seventeenth-century Rotterdam, young Saskia is lady’s maid to wealthy English merchant’s wife. But her talent for manufacturing beautifying face balms far exceeds her lowly status. When the Gibbons family returns to England, Saskia goes with them and sets up in business selling the beauty products which have earned her a devoted clientele. But as she finds success in this new pursuit, she secretly dreams of winning the heart of her employer’s son, the woodcarver Grinling Gibbons, who is destined for great things . . . Based on real historical characters, this is a tale of passion, ambition, and an enterprising young woman ahead of her time.

Garlands of Gold

Daniel Lombard falls in love with Louise de Vailly on the day she arrives in New York, a refugee from the French Revolution which has destroyed the lives of Louise, her sister Delphine and so many other French aristocrats. Though unsure of what they will find in the New World, Louise is a brave and determined young woman, not one to wallow in self-pity. Soon she has found work for Delphine and herself in a millinery, where she uses her innate talent and French flair for fashion to make herself indispensable. Though attracted to Daniel, Louise is equally determined that she will remain independent, not tied to any man. Fatefully, she has made that mistake in the past...

New World, New Love

On an eighteenth-century Yorkshire estate, a beautiful invalid girl falls in love with a young carpenter's apprentice named Thomas Chippendale, who becomes the premier furniture maker of his day

Gilded Splendour

Gabrielle Roches's passion for her family's silk business is matched only by her love for Nicholas Devaux, whose family is competing with Gabrielle's for the honor of producing silk for Napoleon's palaces

Tree of Gold

Holland in de Gouden Eeuw: een welvarend en bedrijvig land waar een geboende stoep even belangrijk is als vrijheid van meningsuiting, waar voor vrouwen enerzijds veel ongeschreven wetten gelden maar anderzijds een ruime mate van vrijheid is. De schilderkunst beleeft haar glorietijd met grote meesters als Hals, Rembrandt en Vermeer. In deze atmosfeer groeit Francesca Visser op. Ze is de zeer getalenteerde dochter van de Amsterdamse schilder Hendrick Visser en niets lijkt haar wens om zelf ook meesterschilder te worden in de weg te staan. Totdat Ludolf van Deventer, een rijke koopman met een obscuur verleden, van haar vader het schilderij Flora koopt, waarvoor zij model heeft gestaan. Vanaf dat moment is Van Deventer geobsedeerd door Francesca en de wens om haar te bezitten. Door sluw misbruik te maken van vader Vissers goklust bij het kaartspel krijgt hij via de vader ook de dochter in zijn macht. Onbewust van het lot dat haar bedreigt, vertrekt Francesca naar Delft waar zij in de leer gaat bij Johannes Vermeer. Onder zijn bezielende leiding komt haar schilderstalent tot volle bloei. En terwijl ze haar hart verliest aan de charismatische Pieter van Doorne, sluit het net van Van Deventer zich steeds strakker om haar heen. In De gouden tulp verweeft Rosalind Laker vele fascinerende aspecten van het leven in de Gouden Eeuw met het meeslepende verhaal over een jonge vrouw die vecht om haar schilderstalent te kunnen ontplooien èn om de stem van haar hart te kunnen volgen.

De gouden tulp

A girl named Louise Vernet Allard who's "skill with a needle soon recognised and as she grows up, her enthusiasm and gift for the fashion world grow apace. Louise's life is inextricably linked with the young Englishman, Worth, who was to change the face of fashion. Then there is Will Russell, a superb fabric cutter and, above all, there is aristocract Pierre de Gand. Can Louise dare to win his love?"--back cover.

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