A selection of 100 popular love poems, based on a nation-wide poll. They include John Donne's The Good-Morrow, Shakespeare's sonnet Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?, Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's How Do I Love Thee?.

Beautiful Cora Cash, the wealthiest debutante in America, is spirited away from the glamour & comfort of her Park Avenue mansion & suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, mistress of Lulworth Castle, maried to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England. As Cora is soon to discover, nothing in this strange new world is quite as it seems.

*A Richard and Judy Book Club title* In 1875, Sisi, the Empress of Austria is the woman that every man desires and every woman envies. Beautiful, athletic and intelligent, Sisi has everything - except happiness. Bored with the stultifying etiquette of the Hapsburg Court and her dutiful but unexciting husband, Franz Joseph, Sisi comes to England to hunt. She comes looking for excitement and she finds it in the dashing form of Captain Bay Middleton, the only man in Europe who can outride her. Ten years younger than her and engaged to the rich and devoted Charlotte, Bay has everything to lose...

When times are tough - whether because of illness, bereavement or receiving bad news - it can be hard to find the right words. Grouping the poems by theme - from 'Hearing Bad News' to 'How To Carry On' - this gem of a book features contributions from classical poets such as John Keats, Emily Bronte, W.H.