Geraldine Perriam
The Clay Dreaming
This novel is set in London in May 1868 during the tour by the first Australian cricket team ever to…
Lord Dancy’s Delight
Amelia Longworth is travelling to England from Macaovia Portugal when she encounters Lord Dancy, returning from military duties on the…
Bath Belles
Belle Haley travels with her mother and younger sister from Bath to London to inspect the house her murdered fiancé,…
The Winter Ground
The latest Dandy Gilver mystery is set in Perthshire in 1925/26 on the estate of Albert Wilson, a wealthy brickmaker…
Remittance Man
Set in Melbourne in 1885, this novel centres on Maude Hanford, “short, not quite pretty” and seeming to be as…
Long Shadows
Alice Chase, once a Londoner and now, in 1939, the wife of Walter, a saw mill worker in Somerset, contends…
The Tenderness of Wolves
Editors' choice
If I had to review this book in six words, it would be “Stop everything and read this novel.” It…
Memoirs of a Highland Lady
“On looking back I find little essential to regret and much, Oh so much, to be thankful for”. This is…
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