Victorian
Scandal Wears Satin
Sophy Noirot and her two sisters own Maison Noirot, the finest dressmaker’s shop in London. The problem is, few people…
One Naughty Night
Victorian London is a difficult place to live well, or survive at all, for a woman without family or husband…
My Last Empress
Samuel Pickens is a precocious young man at the beginning of this novel that spans life in Connecticut and China…
The Poisonous Seed
In Victorian London, Frances Doughty is the daughter of a respected chemist. When a customer dies after drinking a digestive…
Dodger
London, 1840s. Seventeen-year-old Dodger is a ‘tosher’, scavenging in London’s old Roman sewers for a living. It is dark, dangerous…
Jeremiah’s Hunger
In the 1840s, the potato famine ravaged Ireland. Crop failures, starvation, and emigration to America reduced the population of the…
The Cruel Trade
This unusual novel is set in Zanzibar in the mid-19th century, where slavery, ivory and trade from the northern ports…
Splendors and Glooms
The title of this upper-middle-grade novel derives from Percy Shelley’s poem “Adonais”: “And others came … Desires and Adorations, /…
Bertie: A Life of Edward VII
This isn’t yet another biography of the irresponsible, hedonistic heir to the throne who became king far too late in…
Such Wicked Intent
In this second book of The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein series, we pick up not long after the death of…
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