Victorian
The Tenants of the Hôtel Biron
Through a fictitious collection of manuscripts and letters, we learn of the famous artists that lived in Paris’s Hôtel Biron…
Fell the Angels: The Case of the Priory Murder
The title implies a case of murder, but is it murder or suicide? We don’t know, as the notorious death…
Shooting Victoria
Shooting Victoria is not just another biography of the illustrious queen or a history about the eponymous era she generated.…
Selkie Dreams
Máire lives in comfort with her father and their servants in Belfast in 1889. Her loving cook has always maintained…
The Reinvention of Love
With The Reinvention of Love, award-winning Canadian poet and novelist Helen Humphreys has deftly married the elaborate, factual lives of…
The Formula for Murder
In 1890, American reporter Nellie Bly travels to England after learning of a friend’s suicide. The bloated body she confronts…
The Painted Bridge
In 1859 London, Anna Palmer is committed to an insane asylum by her minister husband. She is not psychotic but…
Waratah House
On a ship to Australia in the 1880s, Marina is orphaned after a fever outbreak and is taken into the…
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
What do you know about the Taiping Rebellion, or the Taiping Civil War as Stephen Platt prefers to call it?…
Little People
This is a Gothic novel set in Australia. Unbelievable! –Australia must be the least Gothic country on earth, but here…
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