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Norah Lofts

Norah Lofts

Norah Lofts

Norah Lofts was one of the best known and best loved of all historical novelists, renowned for her authentic use of period detail. Born in 1904 in Norfolk, England, Lofts wrote more than fifty books of fiction, nonfiction, and short stories over the course of her half-century-long writing career, including The King's Pleasure and Here Was a Man, and was a bestselling author on both sides of the Atlantic.

Eleanor the Queen is now available in Trade Paperback, eBook
Apr 20, 2010
Eleanor the Queen will be released on April 20, 2010 in Trade Paperback, eBook
Apr 20, 2010
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from Eleanor the Queen
Apr 07, 2010
The Lute Player is now available in Trade Paperback, eBook
Dec 08, 2009
The Lute Player will be released on December 08, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Dec 08, 2009
The Lute Player will be released on December 08, 2009 in eBook
Dec 08, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from The Lute Player
Oct 15, 2009
Here Was a Man is now available in Trade Paperback
Jul 14, 2009
Here Was a Man will be released on July 14, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Jul 14, 2009
Here Was a Man will be released on July 14, 2009 in eBook
Jul 14, 2009
Here Was a Man is now available in Trade Paperback, eBook
Jul 14, 2009
Here Was a Man is now available in eBook
Jul 01, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 2 from Here Was a Man
May 23, 2009
Excerpt:
Chapter 2 from The King’s Pleasure
Mar 01, 2009
Here Was a Man will be released on July 14, 2009 in Trade Paperback
Dec 19, 2008
Here Was a Man will be released on July 01, 2009 in eBook
Dec 19, 2008

Authors on the Web

Cary News, March 25, 2012
...the works since I was about 15. I became fascinated with Anne Boleyn after reading “The Concubine” by Norah Lofts. It was around that time that my grandmother told me we had a family connection to Anne Boleyn. The name Anne goes through the family,...
Star News Online, January 29, 2012
...life of Anne Boleyn ever since she was 15 years old, and she first read a copy of Norah Lofts' "The Concubine."It's not so surprising, then, that "At the Mercy of the Queen" reads like a teenage girl's ultimate fantasy. (Barnhill does, however, write...
Bury Free Press, March 1, 2012
...her own name but also used the pen name Peter Curtis for books she felt were ‘not typical Norah Lofts’, like The Devil’s Own in 1960. Hammer filmed it as The Witches and it was republished last year with that title. Clive admits he was not aware of...
Bury Mercury, February 23, 2012
...Unveiling of a plague dedicated to author Norah Lofts at Northgate House, Bury St Edmunds. 8:22 AM A BURY St Edmunds writer has been officially honoured at the house she loved as part of a new heritage...
Bury Free Press, February 11, 2012
...Barn murderer William Corder’s hanging. But the other writer the plaques remember has stronger connections. Historical novelist Norah Lofts, whose books are still in print, is remembered on Northgate House, Northgate Street, her home from 1955 to her...
Evening Star, February 8, 2012
...Society. In total the trail celebrates the lives of seven people with connections with the town: Dickens, writer Norah Lofts, painter Rose Mead, artist Sybil Andrews, diarist James Oakes, collector Frederic Gershom Parkington and architect Lewis Nockalls...
East Anglian Daily Times, February 8, 2012
...Society. In total the trail celebrates the lives of seven people with connections with the town: Dickens, writer Norah Lofts, painter Rose Mead, artist Sybil Andrews, diarist James Oakes, collector Frederic Gershom Parkington and architect Lewis Nockalls...
BBC, February 7, 2012
...St Edmunds's history. "It should help tourism." The society is also putting up plaques to author Norah Lofts, architect Lewis Nockalls-Cottingham, the artists Sybil Andrews and Rose Mead, diarist and alderman James Oakes and the cellist Frederic...
East Anglian Daily Times, February 7, 2012
...is taking place today in Bury St Edmunds. The English Heritage-backed plaques will honour three women – writer Norah Lofts, painter Rose Mead and artist Sybil Andrews, and four men – diarist James Oakes, collector Frederick Gershop-Parkington,...