Victorian
Adam, Mine
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Seventeen-year-old Victor Frankenstein is wealthy, brilliant, and ambitious. He is also immature and self-centered, a dangerous combination. Victor has ideas to improve medical ...Read Review
The Song of Stork and Dromedary
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Daanje writes with intimacy about sisterly love, relationships both real and imagined, and death in her episodic work, weaving and interweaving numerous connections ...Read Review
Unto the Day
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The novel’s center is George Brown (1818-1880), editor of the Toronto Globe and a towering figure in Canadian confederation, westward expansion and ...Read Review
Little Spark
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This is the story of Bodkin Bell, the ‘Little Spark’ of the title. We are first introduced to Bodkin in 1868 through her work ...Read Review
The Last Telegram of Mrs Hudson
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Mid-Victorian England. Following the untimely death of her beloved husband, John, twenty-something Katy Hudson returns home. She’s a competent Morse-code telegraph operator ...Read Review
Raven
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Raven is a mid-19th-century gothic whose narrator, Raven Helen Allan, speaks from beyond the grave. One might expect meekness from a murdered ...Read Review
The House of Cursed Daughters
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C.J. Cooke continues to explore women in history who have been wronged, accused, disbelieved, and incarcerated. In her latest novel there are ...Read Review
Shades of Emily
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This dual-timeline, romanticized, historical novel-cum-art mystery, set at the turn of the 20th century, explores the question of who the man was in ...Read Review
The Wolves We Feed, v.1: The Mist of Oblivion
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This ambitious novel follows several families from 1854–1902 in Prussia/Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire during a turbulent period of recurring wars and battles. ...Read Review
A Lady’s Handbook to Gadgets and Guile
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This is a delightful novel set in 1895 London. Margaret Kingsley is a bright protagonist, disabled after a severe injury, who is supported by ...Read Review
