Sarah Bower
Victorian Time
Pardon the pun, but this is a timely publication when current technological advances are affecting the way we perceive time…
How to Create the Perfect Wife
The feminist in me – not to mention the far from perfect wife – quailed at the title of this…
She Rises
When dairymaid Louise Fletcher is whisked away from her life on Handley’s farm to become a lady’s maid to Handley’s…
Darwin’s Ghosts
Darwin was famously troubled by his discovery of evolution by survival of the fittest, which set him at odds with…
Philida
Philida is a knitting girl, a slave in the household of Cornelis Brink whose job is to knit clothes for…
Isabel’s Skin
Book valuer David Morris is summoned to Belmont Hall to value the collection of the late Lord Buff-Orpington, a specialist…
The Potter’s Hand
In his capacious new novel, Wilson brings his combined skills as novelist and biographer to the life of the great…
Where I Left My Soul
André Degorce is a man whose life has been both formed and distorted by the history of France in the…
White Truffles in Winter
As his life draws to its close, the legendary Auguste Escoffier, whose recipes and system for running a kitchen form…
The Sea Inside His Head
Set in the Kent coalfields during the miners’ strike of 1984, this debut novel explores the dilemmas of a miner,…
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