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The Lord and Lady of the manor are absent. Their estate is in decline. Beleaguered by sloth and incompetence, Bosworth, head butler, must take charge before it is too late. But complications arise when a stranger comes calling. Deception forged in unwitting alliances threaten the future of the estate. Will Bosworth, and those in support of him, manage to protect the "treasure" entrusted to them?
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Owning and living in a castle isn't always the fairytale one might imagine. In Keeping the Castle, viewers were given unique insight into the responsibilities and financial struggles that come with a castle when Viscount John Crichton opened the doors of his own ancestral home, Crom Castle in County Fermanagh. John will one day inherit it from his father, the Earl of Erne. To prepare for that future, he goes in search of advice, hoping to see for...
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The Medieval Feudal System was introduced to England after an invasion. It was a simple system wherein all land was owned by the King. It's interesting to note that with this system, social status began and in each status, there were duties and responsibilities that need to be fulfilled. Find out more about the Medieval Feudal System today!
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A witty, beloved novel of heart and heartland, Farm Fatale skewers the culture clash of city vs. country in the snappy, observant style that made Wendy Holden famous. Cash-strapped Rosie and her boyfriend Mark are city folk longing for a country cottage. Rampant nouveaux riches Samantha and Guy are also searching for rustic bliss-in the biggest mansion money can buy. The village of Eight Mile Bottom seems quiet enough, despite a nosy postman, a reclusive...
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The Seminoles once roamed the land that encompasses Wilton Manors, until Henry Flagler brought his East Coast Railway through the untamed wilderness in the late nineteenth century. By 1910, the railway had transformed the area into a viable farming and shipping hamlet known as Colohatchee, until a wealthy businessman began marketing the plot of land nestled between the North and South branches of the Middle River as a beautiful bedroom suburb of Fort...
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Brian and Stéphane strike again! (As if they haven't caused enough trouble already!) Everyone's favorite politically incorrect couple, Brian and Stéphane, embark on yet another zany adventure in Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Peculiar Case of the Follies Dancer. It begins when Stéphane's birthday "treat "goes awry. While having breakfast in a Mexican restaurant in Rancho Mirage, a skeleton falls out of the wall onto their table. It's the...
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Book 2 in the Twilight Manors in Palm Springs Series Brian & Stéphane are Back! Everyone's favorite politically-incorrect couple is back, spreading more madness and mayhem in Palm Springs, California! So what do Peruvian Priestesses, lesbian stunt doubles, drag queen botanists, Zen gardens, cannabis-laced brownies, and S&M ABBA clogs have to do with each other? They're all part of a new Brian and Stéphane adventure! News Flash! There's been a...
11) Bitter orange
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317 pages ; 23 cm
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From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico sees them -- Cara first: dark and beautiful, then Peter: striking and serious. The couple is spending the summer of 1969 in the rooms below hers while Frances is researching the architecture in the surrounding gardens. But she's distracted. Beneath a floorboard in her bathroom, she finds a peephole that gives her access to her neighbors' private lives.
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"A frustrated academic still reeling from her husband's betrayal moves into Ashton Hall with her young son and tries to come up with answers after they discover the remains of a woman walled into a forgotten part of the manor"--
When a close relative falls ill, Hannah Larson and her young son, Nicky, join him for the summer at Ashton Hall, a historic manor house outside Cambridge, England. A frustrated academic whose ambitions have been subsumed...
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vi, 376 pages ; 21 cm.
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The English country house is an iconic setting for some of the greatest British crime fiction. This new collection gathers together stories written over a span of about 65 years, during which British society, and life in country houses, was transformed out of all recognition. It includes fascinating and unfamiliar twists on the classic closed circle plot, in which the assorted guests at a country house party become suspects when a crime is committed....
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"Amid the terror of the Second World War, seventeen-year-old Eliza and her troubled little sister Rebecca have had their share of tragedy, having lost their mother to the Blitz and their father to suicide. Forced to leave London to work for the mysterious Mr. Brownwell at Abigale Hall, they soon learn that the worst is yet to come. The vicious housekeeper, Mrs. Pollard, seems hell-bent on keeping the ghostly secrets of the house away from the sisters...
15) The birdcage
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It was Felix Hamilton who named it the Birdcage- the tall house in Bristol where Miss Pidgeon lives with her tenants, the beautiful and talented actress Angel Blake and Angel's daughter, Lizzie. Lizzie longed for a father, but Felix knew that ultimately he would have to remain with his own son, Piers, at the gracious, mellow Michaelgarth, the family home on the edge of Exmoor.
Many years later, Lizzie comes at last to Michaelgarth and meets Piers...
16) Fiercombe Manor
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403 pages ; 24 cm
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"This ... dual-narrative historical novel, which will appeal to fans of Rebecca and The little stranger, features two women of very different eras who are united by the secrets hidden within the walls of an English manor house."--
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Lady Frances Ffolkes mystery volume 2
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Lady Frances Ffolkes is incensed when she finds out that her dear friends Gwendolyn and Thomasina have been subject to vicious threats. Promising to uncover their attacker, she travels with them to Kestrel's Eyrie, the fabled estate belonging to Gwen's family. But soon Frances faces an even greater problem, when Gwen's father, a powerful diplomat, is stabbed to death with his prized ruby dagger.
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xi, 446 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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"It is the seventeenth century and a wall is being raised around Wychwood, transforming the great house and its park into a private realm of ornamental lakes, grandiose gardens, and majestic avenues designed by Mr. Norris, a visionary landscaper. In this enclosed world everyone has something to hide after decades of civil war. Dissenters shelter in the woods, lovers rendezvous in secret enclaves, and outsiders--migrants fleeing the plague--find no...
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xiii, 286 pages ; 22 cm.
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Something sinister is afoot at Totleigh Hall, the showcase of the sleepy English village of Nether Monkslip. Lord and Lady Baaden-Boomethistle have been in residence for some weeks now, and the villagers are hoping for a return to the days when the lord of the manor sprinkled benefits across the village like fairy dust. But a sudden grisly death intervenes, and Max Tudor's talent for sorting through clues is once again called into play.
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