Victorian
Florence Nightingale
At the age of 17, Florence received a calling from God, and although she persisted in her quest to study…
The True Adventures of Charley Darwin
The book is very much a record of Charles Darwin’s youth from the time he is a nine-year-old going off…
Captivated: J. M. Barrie, Daphne du Maurier and the Dark Secret of Neverland
‘Barrie has a fatal touch for those he loves. They die.’ D. H. Lawrence. This fascinating and disturbing book unravels…
The Darkest Walk
It is 1848 and Scotland Yard have been tracking the progress of the working-class Chartist movement. Worrying new evidence hints…
Drood
Editors' choice
In 1865, Charles Dickens, returning from a holiday with his mistress and her mother, is involved in the disastrous…
An Invitation to Dance
An Invitation to Dance is a well-written and well-researched fictional biography of Lola Montez, an Irish-born woman who posed…
Silent on the Moor
Editors' choice
Widowed Lady Julia Grey returns in this third outing to openly pursue Nicholas Brisbane, a private investigator she first encountered…
Rifling Paradise
Charles Redbourne, a minor middle-aged English landholder, is forced by a series of unsavory circumstances to flee to Australia in…
The Rose of Sebastopol
In The Rose of Sebastopol the horrors of the Crimean War are described by a most unlikely narrator—Mariella Lingwood, a…
Dust and Shadow: An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr John H. Watson
If Sherlock Holmes had been real rather than just a work of fiction, his expertise would have most certainly been…
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