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From Venice to Ravenna and on to Pisa and Genoa, Lord Byron's journey through life and Italy continues. But now he is a man sincerely in love with only one woman, living in a quasi-domesticated happiness with her, until his own nation of Britain makes a political request of him - insisting he is the only man who can do it - and so once again he courageously dons the red military uniform of a commissioned British officer, and leaves Italy - kno...

Good night-or rather, morning. It is four, and the dawn gleams over the Grand Canal, and unshadows the Rialto. I must to bed, up all night - but, 'it's life, though, damme, it's life!' "An Englishman in Italy, Lord Byron's life in Venice is full of fun, laughter, and devil-may-care romancing - until he meets his last and truest love, the eighteen-year-old Teresa Gamba Guiccioli, for whom he risks everything, even the danger to his own life, an...

The Man ... The Poet ... The LegendHaving left England behind him, Lord Byron arrives on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, where he meets the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin and Claire Clairmont. Four young people seeking a new life.All are brought to life in that happy and haunted summer of true friendship, love, and story-telling, when during a period of stormy weather over the Alps, Mary writes 'Frankenstein', and Byron write...

He was later to become known as "The most beautiful and most famous man in England" - but not yet...Beginning when he is a boy of ten years old, we join George Gordon when he is living a miserable life with his manic Scottish mother in a few rented rooms above a shop in Aberdeen, unaware that his true surname is not Gordon, and that his true heritage is with the English aristocracy - who soon come to claim him.A life of wealth and privilege is...

Living amongst the richest people of the highest strata of London Society and being fallen over by its glamorous women, Lord Byron, the "Idol Poet" of his time, has never quite got over the raw emotions of his unrequited love for his country cousin Mary Chaworth.Until they meet again, and Mary finds new hope for a happier life with the man she had once rejected as a teenage boy, and now deeply loves.Byron brings down the wrath of the newspaper...

Byron only had to come, and to be seen, in order to conquer."At twenty-seven, Lady Caroline Lamb reads the story of a young aristocrat's strange journey through unknown and barbaric parts of Europe in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and declares her opinion that the author would certainly be "mad, bad, and dangerous to know."A few weeks later she actually meets him, and becomes obsessed to the point of erotomania.From the wilds of Albania to a lif...

Book 4 of the Byron SeriesWith the instant success of his brilliant new works, The Corsair and Lara, Lord Byron's literary fame as a poet of stature has spread to all parts of America and throughout Continental Europe.Mary Chaworth still invades Byron's thoughts, two other women now seek to move her completely out of his way - Miss Annabella Milbanke, who has now turned into a persistent letter-writer in the hope of renewing Byron's interest i...

A WOMAN BETRAYED .... A WOMEN ENRAGED ...…. "Browne has a talent for drawing us into her characters and situations." IRISH NEWS Maureen Lessing, a middle-aged Irish woman, has been living in a comfortable suburb of Düsseldorf for ten years. Happily married with two teenage children, she works in the hospital of NATO headquarters and her life is good, until the sudden death of her husband brings to light the awful truth of his "business trips."...

A COMPLETE STAND-ALONE NOVEL and also Book #2 of THE LIBERTY TRILOGY) Gretta Curran Browne's books have been internationally published in translation throughout Europe and Japan and China. *** Michael Dwyer was born, cradled and then grew from boy to man under the shade of the Wicklow Hills. He knows every inch of them - the secret streams to quench a man's thirst, the wild game to keep away hunger, the wood in excess to burn, and the shelteri...

A WORLD APART: An Epic Novel From Ireland's Past - The Michael Dwyer Story continues... - (Book 3 of THE LIBERTY TRILOGY) The Michael Dwyer story continues ... powerful in its drama and truth ... and his fame in the history of Ireland begins A COMPLETE STAND-ALONE NOVEL and Book 3 Of THE LIBERTY TRILOGY FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR of TREAD SOFTLY ON MY DREAMS GRETTA CURRAN BROWNE has been internationally published throughout Europe and in Japa...

We were taught nothing about Ireland or its history in school, and when I did learn of the part we played in that struggle, I felt shame. The world should know about young men like Tone and Robert Emmet."-------Oscar-winning actor COLIN FIRTH (Sunday Times Magazine 2012) AN EPIC NOVEL FROM IRELAND'S PAST (BOOK #1 in THE LIBERTY TRILOGY) The book some critics are calling "THE IRISH 'LES MISERABLES'. And others (Ireland On Sunday) ) "On as grand...

A mixture of the Arabic blood of her father, and the English blood of her mother, Elizabeth (Beth) Jarvis grows up on the estate of Jarvisfield in Scotland. A dark-haired, dark-eyed girl of uncommon beauty who enslaves the hearts of two young men, while loving only one. Lachlan Macquarie Junior, rich and golden, and the heir to his famous father's estate, is the joy of his mother's heart, until she finally realises that the only man her son is...

Book Two in THE MACQUARIE SERIES A stand-alone novel, and also the second novel in The Macquarie Series As a young British officer, Lachlan Macquarie served his country in America, the West Indies, India and Egypt, but now he is being asked to go to a wilderness on the other side of the world where famine and strife amongst the inhabitants is flourishing. A firm hand is needed, but when he arrives Lachlan surprises the population by showing th...

Fabulous and heartbreaking … fresh and authentic in every detail … it has to be the best book I have read about the British in India since M. M. Kaye's `The Far Pavilions' - Dr Aileen Keegan. Set in the beauty of Scotland, the magic of India, and the hostility of China, peopled with memorable characters of all races, By Eastern Windows is the story of a young British soldier, Lachlan Macquarie, posted to India where he meets Jane Jarvis, a you...

BROWNE HAS A TALENT FOR DRAWING US INTO HER CHARACTERS AND SITUATIONS" - Irish News Set in the mid 19th century, on the beautiful Island of Mull, the largest of Scotland's Western Isles, on the estate of Jarvisfield owned by Lachlan Macquarie Jnr - a young man deeply unhappy with his lot in life. In love with Beth Jarvis - the young girl of mixed blood whom he had believed would be not be accepted in Scotland's high society, leading him to mar...