Norton Lodge series

These novellas tell historic fictional stories, based on the real lives of real people from Norton’s Lodge in Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, in its past.

From the 1850s to its present-day use as a holiday camp, this collection of books deals with the iconic building's history and the tragic lives of its occupants.

THE ADMIRAL AND THE MARSHMAN (THE SHADOW OF SAIL)

Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Eden Hamond and his trusty servant Abraham Miller in the 1850s, including a visit to the 1851 Great Exhibition.

THE SHADOW OF THE TOWER

The 1911 census and the lead-up to the First World War. Sir Henry Earle's local stable boy, Henry Gatrell, from his birth in 1895 to his death in 1915.

THE SHADOW OF THE BOOK

Francis Charles Drake, grandson of a spy, son of an inventor and himself a Reverend. At The Lodge for the 1891 census.

THE SHADOW OF THE LODGE

The Lodge from 1861 to the present day including a selective and fictional history of the Hamond and Hamond-Graeme Baronet dynasty.