Victorian
How Do I Love Thee?
This is an inspirational fiction take on the famous love story of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. It begins in…
The Fleet Street Murders
Amateur detective Charles Lenox is having a happy Christmas in his Mayfair townhouse with his fiancée Lady Jane Grey…
The Entomological Tales of Augustus T. Percival: Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone
Editors' choice
Dene Low, the pen name for author Laura Card, has created a wonderful tale of Victorian fantasy in this first…
The Promise
This story is set in Newcastle in 1885 and centres around a newspaper investigation into child prostitution within the city.…
The Last Dickens
Charles Dickens has just died, and his final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, is unfinished. Boston publisher James R…
Remarkable Creatures
In this novel, Tracy Chevalier turns her novelist’s eye to the life of Mary Anning who, although reasonably well known…
Seduce Me
Esme Worthington, a self-taught scholar, lives in Victorian London and dreams of finding the location of the legendary Pandora’s Box.…
The Streets of Babylon: A London Mystery
Renowned Swedish mystery author Euthanasia Bondeson and her companion, Agnes, travel to England to spend a season enjoying the Great…
The Children’s Book
Editors' choice
This long-awaited novel, A.S. Byatt’s first since 2001, is extraordinarily difficult to encapsulate and to do full justice within the…
McNaughten
It is 1843, a time of intense agitation about the Corn Laws. Sir Robert Peel’s Private Secretary is shot and…
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