Victorian
Utopian Man
Lang’s award-winning debut is a delight, as a novel, as biography, and as history. Based on the life of Edward…
The Streets
London 1882, and the young David Wildeblood starts work on Henry Marchmont’s staff as researcher/journalist on the weekly publication The…
The Bridegroom Wore Plaid
Ian MacGregor, Earl of Balfour, is in a bind. He can’t afford to maintain his estate, so he needs to…
Sarah Thornhill
As she did in the first book of this trilogy, The Secret River, Kate Grenville delves into her family history…
Death on a Pale Horse
Donald Thomas’ sixth novel about the adventures of famed detective Sherlock Holmes does not disappoint. Capturing the tone and essence…
To Seduce an Earl
Grace Brisbane will do anything to help her dying mother and destitute family, even if it means going to the…
The Ripper Secret
Jerusalem, 1870. In an illegal excavation, Charles Warren locates and removes a priceless artefact from its ancient hiding place. Years…
Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household
Queen Victoria presided over a vast household of servants, but this is not a book about the drudgery of scullery…
The Annals of Sherlock Holmes
This is Paul Gilbert’s third book of Sherlock Holmes pastiche, consisting of three long short stories (or novellas as he…
A Study in Seduction
Lydia Kellaway is a mathematical genius whose scholarly explorations of complex theorems have earned her the respect of her contemporaries.…
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