Most Popular Books by Charlotte Bingham

First published M. Joseph, 1983. A search for romance amongst the cocktail parties, formal balls and luncheons of a debutante''s ''coming out''

Lady Georgiana Longborough has rejected a full-blooded life with her artist lover Augustus Hackett and instead has married the Scottish Lord Stranragh - who likes to address Georgiana was if she were a board meeting. Meanwhile down in Wiltshire, her fecund friend Jennifer''s marriage to the Marquis of Pemberton seems in much better shape - except that Jennifer can never quite tell what ''Pember'' is up to. A drink or two with the butler is one thing - but why is Bloss given a bigger car than Nanny? Fulton and Elliott, Jennifer''s gay neighbours, are happily ensconced with the recently widowed ex-Bluebell girl Lady Tizzy, both of them blissfully content to play at fatherhood - always providing they know the parentage of Lady Tizzy''s children. For pedigree is what it is all about, especially in the country set. But is the emotionally insecure Georgiana too thoroughbred to survive an elopement with Gus when she finds him back in her life? Has Jennifer the ''class'' to rise above the village gossip? One thing is abundantly certain - in this world of social snakes and ladders, most of the protagonists will get what they richly deserve. ''Stylish....Charlotte Bingham distils high-class foibles into a classic lark.'' COMPANY

Biddy is still struggling to help nephew Tom make Hartley House a financial success. When Boris - their Polish handyman/butler - suggests they put in a swimming pool, Biddy reluctantly agrees. But the pool is not quite the attraction they had hoped - and so on Tom''s suggestion, Biddy hires Aurora Feverfew, an expert in Anger Management. The course is an instant success, bringing to Hartley House a succession of problematic guests, some of whom prove so impossible finally Biddy herself ends up resolving to join them on the course......

The beautiful Lady Georgiana Longborough and her friend Jennifer Parker-Jones, 7th Marchioness of Pemberton, are finding life a little too dull in deepest Wilt-shire. Jennifer''s answer to all her problems it seems is to give a Summer Ball. But the social life of the County Set is rarely if ever that straightforward, for while shopping for her ball gown Georgiana re-meets her first lover, Kaminski, the great and famous film director, while at the same time her aunt, the Countess - who is helping Jennifer arrange her ball - finds out that in fact Jennifer is bent on double crossing her. The Countess in turn plots to teach the young Marchioness a lesson - but will she be able to manage her revenge? Will Jennifer discover the true father of her buxom neighbour''s children? Will Fulton - the gay husband of Lady Tizzy the buxom neighbour - ever manage to make Lady Tizzy stop straying? And will Bloss, Lord Pemberton''s wily butler, manage to get his get his new car? Will life in Wiltshire ever be the same? Not as long as Charlotte Bingham''s famously wonderful characters inhabit this neck of the rural woods.....

It is 1939, and the residents of the idyllic fishing village of Bexham are preparing for war. Judy Melton, Meggie Gore-Stewart, Mathilda Eastcott and Rusty Todd are all determined to play an active role while the men are away fighting.

Further adventures of the lives of characters first met in LOVE IN BELGRAVIA - dreary little Jennifer, now a seemingly permanently pregnant marchioness, beautiful but vexatious Georgiana who while recovering from her affair with a world famous film director now pretends to have a husband so that Gus her new working class artist lover won''t insist on marrying her, louche and drunken Andrew Gillott now miserably married to Jennifer''s dreadful socially aspiring mother Clarissa, and pretty Patti, ex-Bluebell girl who calls in Fulton and Elliott, the happily married gay interior decorators to swathe her new husband''s knightly stately home in orange satin - characters equally wonderful and ghastly at the same time, and truly British from the bottom of their green wellies to the top of their Hermes headscarves.

Violet Talland is trying to bring up her six year old daughter Matilda under difficult circumstances with an absent, uncaring husband and an overly possessive mother in law who is determined to end Violet''s marriage and regain possession of both her son and control over her granddaughter. Warned by her sister in law Jane of the Talland family''s intentions Violet flees to Ireland on Jane''s advice where she and Matilda find sanctuary in Parknaveen, a small beauty spot in South West Cork. Here Matilda grows up in peace and happiness while Violet finds love with Joseph, the owner of the hotel where she finally gains employment. But the Talland family are hot on her tail and seemingly trace Violet''s steps to Parknaveen. Once again panic struck Violet disappears but this time without her daughter whom she leaves behind, entrusted to the care of Joseph so that Matilda will at least be safe. The years pass and Matilda, now grown into a characterful young woman, on a trip to Paris with her childhood friend Scrap Catchpoole meets Josh Bellinger, a charismatic, successful and charming older man. By sheer chance Josh turns out to be someone from her mother''s and her own fragmented past and when he and Matilda discover this early connection a chain of events is set in motion that leads finally to love and redemption.

Ce livre refermé, vous n''oublierez jamais Cassie ! Cassie, l''enfant indomptable, la petite fille illégitime, élevée par sa mère qui, pour des raisons de respectabilité, se fait passer pour sa grand-mère, Cassie semant sur son passage l''amour ou la haine au gré de sa fantaisie, Cassie épousant sur un coup de tête le beau Tyrone et scellant son destin en Irlande, dans un haras, au cœur d''une propriété de rêve. Bientôt survient l''adversité sous ses multiples visages les dettes d''un époux dépensier qu''on découvre tout à coup, la stérilité qui brise à jamais tout espoir, la mort enfin qui frappe aveuglément au détour d''un sentier. En décidant de prendre seule la tête du haras, Cassie sait qu''elle va affronter les plus cruelles malveillances. Mais renoncer n''est pas dans sa nature, même si son ennemie de toujours, l''implacable Leonora qu''elle a connue autrefois sur les bancs de l''école et qui la hait depuis le premier jour, veut à tout prix la briser. Tumultueux, plein de rebondissements et d''aventures, Ecoute le rossignol est une magnifique fresque à la gloire d''une femme intrépide et passionnée.

When Cassie becomes the first woman to train an English Derby winner with her home-bred horse The Nightingale, she knows she shares this success with her dead love, Tyrone. Cassie''s integrity and her indomitable will trigger circumstances that turn a brilliant triumph into a nightmare.

A story set in Boston, the Irish countryside and war-torn London, which tells of the friendship between two very different girls who love the same man. Ellie is American to the core, well-behaved and beautiful, and Artemis, crippled by a riding accident, is spirited and very English.

A force de ténacité, l''indomptable Cassie est devenue la première femme entraîneur d''Angleterre : Rossignol, son magnifique cheval, est au sommet de sa forme et l''avenir s''annonce enfin avec sérénité. Hélas, c''est sans compter avec la terrible Leonora, l''éternelle ennemie, femme mauvaise et envieuse qui ne supporte pas le succès de son ancienne camarade de pension. Pour briser son bonheur, Leonora est prête à tous les coups bas. Et Rossignol est une proie facile. Devant le déferlement de ses malfaisances, Cassie n''en reste pas moins un modèle de dignité et de courage. Mais seule, sans le soutien de son défunt mari qu''elle ne parvient pas à oublier, réussira-t-elle à sauver ses enfants et ses employés de la ruine et de la déchéance ? Car vient un moment où aucune arme n''est efficace contre la malveillance foncière. Cependant, Cassie est, à sa manière, une force de la nature...

The Business is showbusiness: magical, glamorous, but ultimately ruthless and cruel. Meredith Browne cam up the hard way, starting at the bottom as a child actress. Max Kassov, on the other hand, has always had everything. A mutual attraction between the pair deepens into a passionate love affair.