19th Century
The Subject of a Portrait
The novel is based upon the convoluted and anguished story of the unconsummated marriage between John Ruskin and Euphemia (Effie)…
The Counterfeit Lady: A Victorian Bookshop Mystery
The fraudulent lady of the title of Kate Parker’s latest novel is heroine Georgia Fenchurch – for Georgia isn’t a…
Mesmer’s Disciple
A dark tale with a building sense of the eerie, Mesmer’s Disciple moves from the street violence of mid-19th Century…
The Traitor
In the second book of her interconnected Captive Hearts Regency series, the author undertakes a daunting challenge: to transform a…
Heirs of Glory: Les Chroniques de Maitre d’armes Etienne Lefèvre
This is a densely-written and confusing novel – designedly so. Entitled The Chronicles of Master of Arms Etienne Lefèvre, the…
The Figurehead
In 1840, Aberdeen on an early morning, the body of shipwright Jimmie Crombie is found on the beach as the…
The Winship Family: Book One (Father and Son)
McCarthy’s trilogy spans virtually the entire course of the Victorian British empire, as young Seamus Tobin is adopted into the…
The Indios
At the heart of Palileo’s debut novel is the beginning of the struggle for Philippine independence from Spanish rule, and…
The Dangerous Discoveries of Gully Potchard
19th century, Southampton, England. Fourteen-year-old Gully Potchard is a printer’s delivery boy looking for a start in life. He lives…
The Tsar’s Dragons
In 1869 Tsar Nicholas invited a Welshman to develop mining and ironworks in Ukraine. John Hughes brought with him Welsh…
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