FirebrandPreviously published as 'Queen's Gambit', this compellingly chilling novel has now been adapted into a major feature film starring, Alicia Vikander, Jude Law, Michelle Williams and Sam Riley. Meet the woman who survived Henry VIII in Elizabeth Fremantle's Firebrand. My name is Katherine Parr. I'm 31 years old and already twice widowed. I'm in love with a man I can't have, and am about to wed a man no one would want for my husband to be is none other

Exploring honesty

Back in London after a gruelling operation in Paris

made notorious by Nancy's novels

The squire of Greshamsbury has fallen on hard times

In this case

and still not equal

and a school trip to Paris

mindful act of looking for birds has made her ever-more determined to campaign for all our survival

It's a puzzle that leads them into a dark underworld on the trail of Clausen's interests and vices

and the way in which home is used in her novels to mean both a place of pleasure and a prison

saved by love

But in recent years