Every novel from this acclaimed and beloved author is avidly read, and its engrossing historical dimensions, family traumas, romance, and vivid settings will prove irresistible.” —Booklist on LETTER FROM A STRANGER
“Loyal fans will tear up at the descriptions of enduring friendship and familial love.” —Publishers Weekly on LETTER FROM A STRANGER
“Vintage Bradford, with lavish descriptions of the pleasures of palate and palette, victims as virtuous as they are gorgeous, [and] cruel Lotharios.” —Kirkus Reviews on PLAYING THE GAME
“Scintillating…plenty of intrigue, secrets, and steamy encounters.” —Booklist on PLAYING THE GAME
“A page-turning plot that keeps you gripped through all of its 448 pages.” —Sunday Express on PLAYING THE GAME
“Satisfies on the fashion-and-passion front… at the heart of the action stands a determined heroine” —Publishers Weekly on BREAKING THE RULES
“A sprawling novel…readers will be happy to dwell in the glamorous world of Bradford's sophisticated characters.” —Booklist on BREAKING THE RULES
“Spellbinding.” —Complete Woman on BREAKING THE RULES
“For the thirtieth anniversary of A Woman of Substance, Bradford has written a marvelous spin-off with all the drama, glamour, and romance readers expect. With a twenty-first-century woman of substance and characters from the Harte series, this nonstop read has it all.” —RT Book Reviews on BREAKING THE RULES
“Her most exciting series yet...It's filled with romance, suspense and intrigue, and the richly detailed characters come vibrantly alive as expert pacing captures your attention from the very first page.” —RomanticTimes BOOKreviews, Top Pick, on the Ravenscar series
“Rife with dastardly internecine struggles, smoldering illicit passion, and cowardly insidious betrayals…[the Deravenels] pack as much intrigue as any Shakespearean royal drama.” —Booklist on Being Elizabeth
“The queen of the bestseller list still rules with The Heir.” —Miami Herald
“Bestseller Bradford's dynastic epic spanning the 20th century should tide over her fans…” —Publishers Weekly
“Bradford's characters are so real, readers clamor to know them better.” —USA Today on the Ravenscar series
“This expertly crafted epic novel further explores the triumphs and tragedies of the Deravenel family. It will enthrall readers with its vivid characters and fast-paced, larger-than-life plot.” —Romantic Times BOOKreviews (4 ½ stars) on The Heir
“The Ravenscar Dynasty has it all—power, betrayal, mystery...The characters are all complex, dynamic, and powerful, leading us through Edward Deravenel's struggles one exciting step at a time.” —Romance Reviews Today
“Bradford's fiction has long focused on strong heroines who succeed against great odds. Her latest novel, The Ravenscar Dynasty...is the first of a planned trilogy of novels, all destined for best-sellerdom.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“The Harte saga is as much a force of nature as a work of fiction…the issues at stake still compel readers after 25 years. Bradford understood early on readers' hunger for depictions of women who are strong and powerful and whose values embrace family. A quarter-century ago, Emma Harte crossed the no-woman's-land that once divided family and business, and now generations of readers consider her a role model in their own lives.” —The Washington Post
“A truly remarkable conclusion to her beloved Harte family saga…riveting and intense. Not many novels have the ability to completely immerse the reader, but this one draws you into the story from the very first page.” —Romantic Times BOOKreviews on Just Rewards
“Bradford gives her readers more of what she does best—strong, savvy female protagonists who relentlessly pursue great destinies, characters much like the author herself…well-written and full of emotion…completely riveting…the plot, while always complex, has suspenseful moments to keep the pace sharp…good reading…Unexpected Blessings clearly shows why Bradford is still the premier writer of family sagas.” —Miami New Times
“The exploits and adventures of Bradford's indomitable heroines continue to make for lusty escapist fiction in this robust fifth novel in the series.” —Publishers Weekly on Unexpected Blessings
“The enduring theme of family loyalty ennobles the Harte family saga and raises it to a heartwarming crescendo that longtime fans will appreciate.” —Book Page
“Readers who loved A Woman of Substance will enjoy Emma's Secret.” —Denver Post
“In her 19th novel, the grande dame of mass-market fiction revisits her first heroine—the indomitable Emma Harte.” —New York Daily News on Emma's Secret
“So many of us turn to novels like Barbara Taylor Bradford's…for our daily dose of amour.” —Woman's Day Magazine on the Harte Saga
“Promises to tantalize, mesmerize, and titillate readers of all ages. It has all the Bradford touches: strong and swift plot, hints of secrets about to be revealed…spellbinding.” —Roanoke Times on the Harte Saga
“A novel for everyone…A satisfying, lushly detailed saga.” —Rave Reviews on To Be the Best
“A master storyteller and character builder, Ms. Bradford again crafts another reader-holder novel…Act of Will is another winner.” —The Pittsburgh Press
“The men and woman are all gorgeous, rich, well-dressed.There are luxurious descriptions in this perfect page-turner.” —Philadelphia Inquirer on Hold the Dream
“A vibrantly characterized leading lady and a glimpse at the dazzling world of the rich and powerful.” —Working Woman on the Harte Saga
“Voice of the Heart is the sort of book I cannot resist, indeed I pray to find.” —The Washington Times Magazine
“Meant to be read in a peignoir on a chase lounge whist nibbling scented chocolates.” —Cosmopolitan on The Harte Saga
“A rich tapestry of love and romance.” —San Diego Union on the Harte Saga
“It is easy to want every item Bradford catalogues, easy to imagine wearing it, eating and drinking it, driving it, smelling like it…The geography of Voice of the Heart takes a reader to all the right places.” —Los Angeles Times
“An extravagant, absorbing novel of love, courage, ambition, war, death, and passion.” —The New York Times on A Woman of Substance
“A Woman of Substance [is] a long, satisfying novel of money, power, passion and revenge, set against the sweep of 20th century history.” —Los Angeles Times
“Wonderfully entertaining.” —Denver Post on A Woman of Substance
After her famed photographer father's death, American photojournalist Serena Stone returns to New York to write her father's biography. Alas, she must soon head to Europe to rescue a former lover, but as she nurses him back to health at the family home in France, she discovers a secret in her father's photographic archive that changes the course of her life. Bradford is here turning out her 28th book; since the first 27 were international best sellers, you know how this latest will go.
Thirty-year-old Serena Stone, war photographer and daughter of two famous parents, begins a journey into her father’s past as she writes a biography of his life. Narrator Stina Nielsen uses an even tone and an easy pace through much of the story. However, as Serena digs deeper into her father’s past and her own experiences, Nielsen’s voice takes on increased tension. Serena’s story takes her from New York to Italy, and finally to Libya, and Nielsen expertly delivers the names of the places and people. While she provides little differentiation in the voices of the secondary characters, Nielsen accurately conveys the theme of Bradford’s story, with its focus on family and love. E.N. © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine
Thirty-year-old Serena Stone, war photographer and daughter of two famous parents, begins a journey into her father’s past as she writes a biography of his life. Narrator Stina Nielsen uses an even tone and an easy pace through much of the story. However, as Serena digs deeper into her father’s past and her own experiences, Nielsen’s voice takes on increased tension. Serena’s story takes her from New York to Italy, and finally to Libya, and Nielsen expertly delivers the names of the places and people. While she provides little differentiation in the voices of the secondary characters, Nielsen accurately conveys the theme of Bradford’s story, with its focus on family and love. E.N. © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine
Clichéd and overlong novel about war photographers coping with PTSD, love affairs and family secrets. Bradford's protagonist, 30-year-old Serena, is a combat photographer who has left the front lines to pen a biography of her late father, Tommy, founder of a photojournalism empire and a former war correspondent himself. When another photojournalist, ex-boyfriend Zac, is brought from Afghanistan to Venice by a mutual friend, Serena, summoned to his side to help him decompress, finds herself falling for him all over again. The scene shifts to Nice, where Serena reconnects with her older twin sisters, Cara and Jessica, at a villa inherited from their late mother, a movie star of Elizabeth Taylor stature. Over many, many glasses of pink Veuve Clicquot and cups of tea, repetitious conversations belabor mostly peripheral and insignificant details--about Cara's and Jessica's unadventurous love lives, an upcoming anniversary celebrating their departed parents and Zac's continuing recovery from a trauma that was never rendered convincingly in the first place. It isn't until two-thirds in that a potentially riveting "secret from the past" emerges: While combing through her father's archives, Serena finds a cache of photographs revealing that Tommy may have dallied briefly with another war photographer, Valentina. There are photos of a very pregnant Val, with a disturbing caption suggesting that Serena may not be a movie star's daughter after all. Serena can get no confirmation of her origins from her sisters or her father's closest friends. But Zac distracts her from this dilemma with another. Although he promised to give up war-zone reporting forever, he wants to go to Libya to cover the rebellion against Gadhafi. And he insists on taking Serena, now his fiancee, with him. Serena has an ulterior motive for agreeing: Val is now in Libya. But that's not the most distressing information she's withholding from Zac. However, the prodigious amount of front-loaded exposition may discourage readers long before the excitement starts. A gripping novella embedded in a thick tome of largely irrelevant window dressing.
