Meriol Trevor: 9 books

Eminent Victorian, academic and thinker, Anglican clergyman and celebrated convert, caring pastor and writer, Catholic priest, and Cardinal - these are some of the signposts along Newman's celebrated journey. This refreshing biography reveals a very real and compassionate man who was much more than...

Among Napoleon's lesser known activities was matchmaking. Alix, widow of the Prince of Montpierre and known for her elegance and intelligence, seemed to the Emperor a good match for one of his most successful generals, Laroche. But Alix is loath to marry anyone, her first marriage not having...

Following the breakdown of the Peace of Amiens in 1802, Napoleon retaliated against England's renewal of hostilities by holding as prisoners all British civilians in France at the time. So it is in a foreign city and amidst the uneasy atmosphere of a country at war that a group of English families...

All London called him a traitor! Exiled and in poverty, Thierry was taunted like an animal on display, but bore it with the nobility of a true aristocrat. Petronella, orphaned and alone, had been too long deprived of a home of her own. Best by the perils of a nation at war, she longed for peace and...

Born to a life of wealth and ease, the innocent, dreamy-eyed Claudine knew nothing of the ways of the world. Nor could she hope to resist the advances of Gabriel, the dashing rebel hero. Gabriel, gallant scion of the hated Comte de Villerange, was never more than a town ahead of his pursuers....

For Seraphine de Trévires, love would have to wait. It was marriage she longed for - marriage to Dominique d'Erlen, traitor and usurper of his brother's estates. But this was the time of the French revolution; armies were on the march and disaster threatened all of Europe. The loveless union was...

Georgia Allison, a tradesman's daughter, has always had her pretty head filled with romantic notions. When she recieves an unexpected proposal of marriage from Sir Myles Dynham of Brentland, it can hardly be refused. But the marriage turns out rather differently from her expectations. When she...

Olivia Thorne was pretty, penniless and unmarried - and likely to stay that way. Because the only man who had ever made her heart beat faster was also penniless; a charming rogue of an Englishman named Lucian who played the piano and acted the gentleman in public, but was a rebel at heart. Against...

Poor, orphaned Louisa was only at Rosewell a short time when she realised that all was not well between her golden-haired cousin Caroline and Caroline's coolly handsome husband, Colonel Rowland Dynham. "Much too wild," the gossips said of Caroline. But everybody was ready to accuse the...