19th Century
Death and the Sisters (A Mary Shelley Mystery)
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Sixteen-year-old Mary, the daughter of famed authors Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, is a natural storyteller with a vivid imagination but feels her ...Read Review
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
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While browsing the Oxford University Press archives, academic Sarah Ogilvie came across the hitherto unknown black notebook of James Murray. Murray was the ...Read Review
The Runaway Bride
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We first meet the Turner family when our protagonist’s father admires the fruits of his labours as he arrives at his stately ...Read Review
The Butterfly Collector
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1922 Sydney. Verity Binks wants to be a reporter like her father and grandfather, but with soldiers coming home from the Great War, she ...Read Review
A Writer’s Guide to Nineteenth-Century Murder by Arsenic (A Curiosity of Crime)
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Intended as a writers’ guide, this book explores the methods and implications of arsenic poisoning in the 19th century. Cathers sifts out the ...Read Review
Murder on the Pneumatic Railway
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Surgeon Samson Light is in the Clerkenwell House of Detention, awaiting trial for a crime he didn’t commit. A post office worker’...Read Review
The Ship’s Midwife
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The “coffin ships” that crossed the Atlantic in the mid-1800s are well-known. Numerous impoverished Irish emigrants died before reaching their destination, the ...Read Review
The Baker’s Sister
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Leeds, 1898. After three years of hard work, Meg Fairfax has finally saved enough money to buy her beloved bakery. Her fiancé Frankie is ...Read Review
Sharpe’s Command
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The 23rd Sharpe novel takes us back to the Peninsular War and the eventful year of 1812. Although he is now ranking as a ...Read Review
A Not-So-Distant Love
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In 1835, Charlotte is heir to her father’s dukedom, a Scottish one that can pass through the female line. When her cousin Tavish ...Read Review