Barbara Taylor Bradford, Author Doubleday $24 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-49274-4
Another version of the indefatigable, headstrong heroine that's been Bradford's trademark since she first published A Woman of Substance 20 years ago appears here in a watered-down version as Laura Valiant, a New York art dealer who specializes in...
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Barbara Taylor Bradford. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-312-63168-0
Bradford’s latest (after Playing the Game) is a multigenerational tale set in Connecticut’s exclusive Litchfield Hills, exotic Istanbul, uptown New York, and WWII Germany. Filmmaker Justine Nolan, 32, cuts a sympathetic figure despite being tall,...
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, St. Martin's, $27.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-312-57808-4
In her 26th book Bradford (Breaking the Rules) embraces all the tropes of the rags-to-riches story. Although London art consultant and dealer Annette Remmington has been thoroughly educated about art by her controlling, much older husband, Marius,...
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, Author Andrews McMeel Publishing $22.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7407-2684-2
It should come as no surprise that Bradford, author of bestselling romances such as A Woman of Substance and Power of a Woman, would look to her novels for inspiration in this book of tips designed to help keep the relationship fires burning. But...
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, Author Random House (NY) $5.99 (522p) ISBN 978-0-394-55951-3
For the first time using a man as her protagonist, Bradford gives us a cliched love story nearly indistinguishable from her previous ( A Woman of Substance ) hefty novels. Tycoon Maximilian West, workaholic founder of a multinational financial...
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, Author Doubleday Books $19.95 (514p) ISBN 978-0-385-24579-1
Bradford's trilogy on ``merchant prince'' Emma Harte and her many heirs began with the runaway bestsellers A Woman of Substance and Hold the Dream. This final book picks up the story a decade after Emma's death, when the third generation has the...
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, Author Doubleday Books $17.95 (374p) ISBN 978-0-385-18129-7
Though enjoyable, Bradford's latest novel lacks the sweep and grandeur that characterized her bestsellers, A Woman of Substance and Hold the Dream. Left to the indifferent care of an aunt after the death of her mother, well-bred Audra Kenton is sent
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, Author HarperTorch $7.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-109209-1
Bradford's tale of the May-September affair of a young married man and a middle-aged divorcee was a five-week PW bestseller. (Dec.)
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, Author Doubleday $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-49275-1
Injecting her new novel with timeliness, bestselling Bradford (A Sudden Change of Heart) makes her setting war-zone Kosovo, where gorgeous and talented photojournalist Valentine Denning is covering the action with two equally gorgeous men: American...
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Long celebrated as a bestselling chronicler of women's lives, Bradford adds a mystery twist to her latest tale of romantic suspense. At 17, Katie Byrne and her lifelong best friends, Denise and Carly, share a passion to act on Broadway and plan
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-017721-8
The deplorable practice of sending orphan children to the far reaches of the British empire, which continued even after WWII, provides the factual background for bestselling author Bradford's 12th novel (after Love in Another Town). The prologue,...
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, Author HarperCollins Publishers $15 (181p) ISBN 978-0-06-017680-8
Apparently not one to miss a trend or popular spin, Bradford (Everything to Gain) weaves some New Age mysticism into this atypically short tale, a gender-reversed May-September romance that starts slowly but winds up handily resolving a rash of...
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (338p) ISBN 978-0-06-017722-5
Hate, lust and considerable intrigue propel Bradford's latest (after Everything to Gain), a romantic mystery. Sebastian Locke, the last great philanthropist, has the world at his fingertips--power, money and a beautiful fiancee. Suddenly,...
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, Author HarperCollins Publishers $24 (361p) ISBN 978-0-06-017723-2
Bradford weighs in with a maudlin saga about a woman's struggle to go on after a devastating tragedy. Her narrator, New York wife and mother Mallory Keswick, feels she is showered with blessings, but just as the family is making plans to go to...
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, Author Random House Inc $23 (382p) ISBN 978-0-394-55959-9
Once again Bradford's ( A Woman of Substance ) characters are purely secondary to the settings--rather like Architectural Digest married to Vogue . No matter what disaster strikes plucky heroine Rose Madigan--and there are many--every item of her...
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, Author . St. Martin’s $27.99 (418p) ISBN 978-0-312-57806-0
For the 30th anniversary of her first novel, A Woman of Substance
, Bradford delivers her 25th book. The riches-to-more-riches tale features beloved matriarch Emma Harte’s plucky great-granddaughter, M, who, at 23, moves to New York to start a
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, Author . St. Martin's $25.95 (470p) ISBN 978-0-312-35462-6
Bestseller Bradford (The Ravenscar Dynasty
; Voice of the Heart
) presents the serviceable second chapter in her Ravenscar trilogy, a dynastic epic spanning the 20th century. In 1918, 14 years after assuming control of the family company, 33-year-old
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, Author . St. Martin's $25.95 (484p) ISBN 978-0-312-35460-2
The doyenne of popular women's fiction (Just Rewards
) returns with the first installment of a projected trilogy centering on internecine power struggles within the early 20th century incarnation of the centuries-old Deravenel clan and their...
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-312-30706-6
Can this be, as advertised, the final episode in the Harte family saga? A Woman of Substance
(1979), the story of Emma Harte's triumph over poverty and illegitimacy to found England's greatest department store, and its four sequels were...
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-312-30704-2
Emma Harte, the redoubtable heroine of veteran novelist Bradford's 1976 bestseller, A Woman of Substance,
has been dead for 30 years, but she's still a player in the continuing family saga. Her pronouncements and unwritten rules are well...
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-312-30702-8
It has been nearly 25 years since Bradford made her name with the female rags-to-riches saga A Woman of Substance
, the first in a trilogy of novels that concluded with 1988's To Be the Best
. Gambling that there is still life to be squeezed out
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Barbara Taylor Bradford, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-50141-5
The bestselling grande dame of popular women's fiction is back with her 18th book, after The Triumph of Katie Byrne. Replete with mystery, romance, secrets and conflict, Bradford's latest examines the lives of four women, alumni of an...
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Barbara Taylor Bradford. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-18739-0
The sprawling first installment in Bradford’s House of Falconer series, set in Victorian England, follows James Falconer, son of a struggling merchant, and Alexis Malvern, the daughter of one of London’s most successful businessmen, as their lives...
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Barbara Taylor Bradford. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-18742-0
Bestseller Bradford adds a leisurely paced installment to her House of Falconer series (after Master of His Fate), set in Victorian England. The story tracks aspiring merchant James Falconer’s rising career at the shipping and real estate firm...
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Barbara Taylor Bradford. St. Martin’s, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-18748-2
Bradford concludes her House of Falconer trilogy (after In the Lion’s Den) with an affecting story of James Falconer’s WWI service and return to London civilian life at age 48. Sixteen years after his wife and son died in childbirth, Falconer, now a
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