19th Century
Astray
Award-winner Donoghue (Room, Life Mask, Slammerkin) presents a collection of her short stories which focus on journeys, both literal and…
The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family
Juliet Barker has impeccable credentials to write a definitive history of the Brontës. As curator to the Brontë Parsonage Museum…
The Damnation of John Donellan: A Mysterious Case of Death and Scandal in Georgian England
Theodosius Boughton: youthful heir to a baronetcy, womanizing ne’er-do-well, a year from his inheritance … and dead. This nonfiction work…
A Lack of Temperance
The Hattie Davish mystery series is off to a promising start. The young amateur sleuth is a traveling secretary with…
A Sunless Sea
Early on a November morning in 1864, while rowing from his duties on the Thames, William Monk of the River…
Seven Nights in a Rogue’s Bed
In England in 1826, beautiful, innocent Sidonie Forsythe volunteers to take her sister Roberta’s place as the prize won in…
The Tattooed Duke
Eliza Fielding is one of the London Weekly’s famous Writing Girls—a group of women who, quite scandalously, write for one…
Elijah’s Mermaid
Editors' choice
There is always a fear that an author’s second novel will not live up to the first. I was very…
Ripper
With a mother as a governess, Abbie moved between Dublin’s good society and its poorer residents, learning how to make…
Pride and Pyramids
Fifteen years after the events of Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth and Darcy receive a visit from Darcy’s cousin, Edward Fitzwilliam,…
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