Victorian
After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal
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The long, twisting afterlife of Oscar Wilde is touchingly portrayed by the beloved playwright’s grandson in Merlin Holland’s After Oscar. This ...Read Review
A Woman of Agency
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The writer sets out his stall briskly: espionage, diplomacy and war circling one another in the fraught summer of 1863. A French courier is ...Read Review
Sublime Dissonance
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The power of music to inspire, to encourage, to comfort, and to bear witness in even the most unharmonious of times weaves in ...Read Review
An Artful Dodge
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Kit Jimeson is a thief. Part of a gang of female pickpockets in 1870s London, orphan Kit might wish for a different life, ...Read Review
A Boy Called Hero
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Hero Del Rosario has recently moved back to the Philippines from California with his family, but now his parents have left him alone ...Read Review
Of Devotion and Death
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Violet Manville, amateur sleuth and the anonymous voice behind the Miss Hermione agony aunt column in Victorian times, is taking a break—clandestinely ...Read Review
Stolen Innocents: A Yorkshire Tragedy
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I must admit I am not quite certain what, exactly, Stolen Innocents is: a true crime book? A non-fiction narrative with some fictionalisation? ...Read Review
For Services Rendered: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel
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Physician James Cantlie hires private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn to find a young friend who has gone missing: Dr. Sun ...Read Review
The Case of the Dreaming Dragon: An Elemental Detectives Mystery
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Two young detectives, Marisee and Robert, introduce the reader to an engaging and enchanting mysterious world of London’s Elemental spirits, including fiery ...Read Review
What the Fog Conceals
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What the Fog Conceals is inspired by the true story of the clearance of Audley’s Town in County Down, Ireland. By 1859, Harriet, ...Read Review
