Edwardian
The Irregular: A Different Class of Spy
The Irregular is an amazing mix of actual persons and events, persons and events from the author’s imagination and some…
The Beachcomber’s Wife
Edmund Banfield, Australian journalist and natural history aficionado, was known for his numerous writings about early 20th-century life on Dunk…
Sherlock Holmes and the Nine Dragon Sigil
The game’s afoot and we are off, in this homage to the Great Detective. In 1906 Holmes is keeping bees…
The Buttonmaker’s Daughter
Editors' choice
It is May 1914, and self-made man Joshua Summer’s plan to create a magnificent Italian garden at his Sussex home…
The Lost History of Stars
By September 1900, the Anglo-Boer War has been fought for a year. Members of the Venter family are Afrikaners trying…
Frozen Voices
This is a crisp and readable novelization of the steamship Larchmont disaster, which claimed the lives of 137 people off…
The Cutthroat: An Isaac Bell Adventure
Pity poor Justin Scott, who’s listed as the co-author of nine of the ten books in Clive Cussler’s Isaac Bell…
Her Mother’s Secret
Leonora (Leo) East has been running her father’s pharmacy business in Sutton Veny when World War I finally ends. In…
Spindrift
Late 1904, Tasmania. Christy announces to her family that she is planning a visit to her Scottish homeland on the…
The Other Hoffman Sister
In 1902, Ingrid Hoffmann’s family moves to German South West Africa, where her father makes his fortune, but the seeds…
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