Valerie Anand, Author . Mira $24.95 (586p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2502-4
The War of the Roses rages around the Lanyons in Exmoor, England, prosperous tenant farmers of the landed Sweetwater family. Peter Lanyon and his wife, Liza, bridle at his father Richard’s attempts to run their lives as Richard, who hides a...
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Valerie Anand, Author . Mira $13.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-7783-2601-4
Anand (The House of Lanyon
) depicts colorfully the turbulent and bloody 16th century, when England, under the rule of Henry VIII and his heirs, was rife with court intrigue, religious unrest and political espionage. Jane Allerbrook, lady-in-waiting
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Valerie Anand, Author St. Martin's Press $0 (468p) ISBN 978-0-312-02939-5
The death of King William II in a hunting accident serves as the convergence point for several satisfying plot lines in Anand's ( To a Native Shore ) fifth historical novel. After William Rufus, eldest of William the Conqueror's three sons, succeeds
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Valerie Anand, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (404p) ISBN 978-0-312-03315-6
The tumultuous years leading to the reign of Richard III and, on his death, the ascension to the English throne of the first Tudor Henry are conveyed with authoritative detail in this engrossing historical novel by the author of King of the Wood....
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Valerie Anand, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (373p) ISBN 978-0-312-09417-1
Moving up in the world, the Whitmead family that struggled as serfs through The Proud Villeins and much of The Ruthless Yeomen , begins to achieve respectability in the third book of The Bridges Over Time saga. Despite inroads into the gentry,...
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Valerie Anand, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-312-08282-6
A sweeping, often moving tale of English medieval life, this novel depicts historical events--ranging from 1040 to 1215, when the Magna Charta was signed--from the perspective of a family of serfs. When Norman knight Ivon de Clairpont is taken...
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Valerie Anand, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (342p) ISBN 978-0-312-08884-2
The family of English serfs whose saga began in The Proud Villeins remains in bondage as Anand continues the series into the latter part of the 13th century. In the village of Rushley, Isabel of Northfield, young wife of Alfred Plowman, envies her...
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Valerie Anand, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13943-8
English novelist Anand's ironically titled fifth entry (after The Faithful Lovers) in her Bridges Over Time series features sensitive, free-spirited women who rebel, outwardly or inwardly, against selfish, chauvinistic husbands, lovers and fathers....
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