Victorian
Straw in the Wind
In this mid-Victorian novel, detective Adam Chapman is hired by Dorset sea captain Erasmus Thornton to discover whether his lover’s…
Charles Dickens: His Journal
This book takes the form of an imaginary journal by an 18-year-old Charles Dickens, who at a low point in…
One Touch of Scandal
1856, Victorian England. Governess Grace Gautier is accused of murdering her fiancé, a man who offers her security and a…
Dracula in Love
In the opening pages of Dracula in Love, Mina Murray Harker states that the documents and letters used in Bram…
The Player’s Curse
This is the third in the Bella Wallis series, set in a feisty Victorian England. Bella, who is a successful…
The Secret Mandarin
Editors' choice
In London, 1842, actress Mary Penny has brought disgrace on her respectable family. Mary’s brother-in-law, botanist Robert Fortune, forces her…
The Opposite of Falling
In 1862, Ursula Bridgewater of Liverpool is jilted without explanation by her fiancé. Independent of mind, means and now of…
The Time-Travelling Cat and the Great Victorian Stink
Sixth adventure about Topher and his time-travelling cat, Ka, which takes them back to the Victorian London of 1858. This…
Zulu Rising: The Epic Story of iSandlwana and Rorke’s Drift
At iSandlwana in 1879, 20,000 Zulus defeated 1,800 men of the British Army in a battle so bloody and devastating…
Hancox: A House and a Family
The author grew up and still lives in a house that has been in her family since 1888. Yet Hancox…
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