Victorian
The Duke Gets Desperate (Sirens in Silk, 1)
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Yorkshire, 1886. As if it were not bad enough to inherit an impoverished estate, Anthony Carey, Duke of Strickland, is stunned to learn that ...Read Review
Our Hideous Progeny
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England and Scotland in the 1850s. Mary Elizabeth Sutherland is an ambitious and feisty natural history illustrator married to Henry, a rather combative ...Read Review
The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe
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1838, and in Tyldesley, Lancashire, a man carefully pastes fabric cuttings into a scrapbook. In slanting copperplate, he records: This is the dress my ...Read Review
The Madwomen of Paris
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In this novel, set in a monolithic asylum in Paris in the late 1800s, protagonist Laure is both a former inmate and current ...Read Review
The Carnivale of Curiosities
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With atmospherically rich effect, Amiee Gibbs’s The Carnivale of Curiosities combines gothic Victorian historical with dark fantasy. Among entertainments offered in Gibbs’...Read Review
Educating Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Miller runs a much-needed school for underprivileged girls in London’s East End, but the costs are overwhelming. She reluctantly turns to ...Read Review
Bookshop Cinderella
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In this Victorian romance, Evie Harlow is a strong and independent woman, a source of consternation to her family and society. She took ...Read Review
The Nightingale Affair
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In 1855, the Crimean War still rages, and within the walls of the Barracks Hospital, another war takes place between the male doctors and ...Read Review
The Horror of Haglin House (The Violet Thorn Mysteries, 1)
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Suffolk, 1894. Jilted at the church door, Lady Violet Thorn, intrepid writer of thrillers, doesn’t do what one might expect an author to ...Read Review
The Devil’s Playground
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This gothic thriller opens in 1967. Paul Conway, journalist and film buff, searches for supposedly the one and only surviving copy of a silent ...Read Review
