Palliser

Alice Vavasor is reluctant to marry the man she truly loves because his style of life doesn't fit with her idea that people should make something useful of their lives. She becomes engaged to her cousin but can't forget the man she truly loves.  Book 1 of series.

Phineas is young, Irish, attractive, ambitious and adaptable. This story reveals the splendour and absurdity of parliamentary proceedings and compromise of the party system in the mid nineteenth century.  Book 2 of series.

When Lizzie Eustace acquires an expensive diamond necklace she maintains it was a gift from her late husband. Eustace family lawyers disagree, and insist she gives it up. She is driven to desperate acts to keep the jewels, causing gossip and scandal.  Book 3 of series.

Phineas Phinn returns to politics but finds that his progress is impeded by a series of quarrels. Phineas is drawn into a web of suspicion; eventually to find himself in the dock, charged with murder.  Book 4 of series.

Plantaganet Pallister, Duke of Omnium, is a scrupulously honourable English gentleman, but can he make an effective Prime Minister? Presiding over a coalition government, and interacting with the upper echelons of the Establishment, must political reality take over from ideology?  Book 5 of series.

The death of the Duchess leaves the Duke of Omnium in charge of his three wilful children.  Book 6 of series.