Chatto & Windus
The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones
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Tristan Hart is a product of his time (the mid-18th century): conversant in Enlightenment philosophy but puzzled by the mechanics…
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…
Merivel: A Man of His Time
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This is a sequel to Tremain’s 1989 novel, Restoration, which was a memoir of Sir Robert Merivel, physician, bon-viveur, friend…
Bertie: A Life of Edward VII
This isn’t yet another biography of the irresponsible, hedonistic heir to the throne who became king far too late in…
The Uninvited Guests
This is a bizarre and fantastic story, which takes place over 24 hours in Sterne – a substantial English country…
Moll: The Life and Times of Moll Flanders
The eponymous heroine of Daniel Defoe’s novel, first published in 1722, is a well-known icon of female depravity. Moll was…
Little Bones
Jane Stretch is fifteen and crippled when her questionable parents and pretty older sister abandon her at the mercy of…
The Wine of Solitude
First published in France in 1935 yet only available in English since 2011, The Wine of Solitude is the most…
Derby Day
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Any reader who likes the gentle and considered narratives of the novels of Trollope or Thackeray should enjoy this work…
Cross My Palm
London ladies in the 1860s loved to hold supper parties and have their fortunes told. Fortune-teller Miss Rose Lee is…
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