In 1842, the young Queen Victoria is on the throne, and the landed gentry is in its prime. At Elmstead Court, Sir Richard Hudson rules his household with a subtle tyranny.Despite simmering tensions, Miss Frances Weyland is impressed by the warmth of ...
It is London in 1820, and a certain down-at-the-heels Austrian musician who has been living in England for many years is about to get another chance. That musician is Wolfgang Gottlieb Mozart - 64 years old, a Mason, the composer of such peerless ope...
Writing as Bernard Bastable, a popular mystery author serves up a new traditional English mystery that follows the story of Sarah Jane Fearing, who helplessly watches her brother's extravagant lifestyle drag him into a life of debt, quarrel, and ulti...
It is 1820, and George IV has just assumed the throne. An ageing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is intrigued by the prospect of a coronation, scenting rich pickings. As a child he had visited England with his family in 1764, but instead of returning to Aust...