Mary Sharratt
The Perfect Summer: Dancing Into Shadow in 1911
“I have been born at the end of the age of peace and can’t expect to feel anything but despair,”…
Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders
Oscar Wilde makes his debut as a fictional sleuth in this recent addition to the spate of historical detective novels…
Secret
Editors' choice
This autobiographical novel tells the story of young Philippe’s childhood in post-war Paris. The sickly only child of glamorous, athletic…
Wintering
In the late 1950s, bankrupt Jaguar salesman Jim Parker must start his life over again in a village near Glastonbury.…
The Gentle Wind’s Caress
Orphaned Isabelle will do anything to escape her Halifax, Yorkshire workhouse, where she is harassed by Neville, the matron’s son.…
Masque of the Gonzagas
This panoramic epic of the Italian Renaissance is set in the court of Vincenzo Gonzaga, 4th Duke of Mantua, who…
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Editors' choice
Iris Lockhart is a stubbornly independent young woman in modern Edinburgh. Her only real connections with the past are Kitty,…
The Mathematics Of Love
1819: Waterloo veteran Stephen Fairhurst has lost his leg and his true love to war. Returning to England, he is…
Symphony
Editors' choice
This stunning novel illuminates the passionate and stormy union of great Romantic composer, Hector Berlioz, and Anglo-Irish actress, Harriet Smithson,…
The Apple: New Crimson Petal Stories
The Crimson Petal and the White, Faber’s monumental novel of a Victorian prostitute’s progress, won him fans all over the…
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