Victorian
Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell: Their Lives, Friendship and Writings
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Brontë and Gaskell are well-known literary figures who must always appear in any list of prominent Victorian writers. These women not only shared ...Read Review
The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Volume X
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The afterlife of Sherlock Holmes shows no sign of abating, and this series continues to carve out its own niche within that crowded ...Read Review
The Scandalous Ladies Football Club
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1897. Living in Crouch End, London, under a false name, Adela feels it’s an uphill struggle to inspire her pupils at a progressive ...Read Review
Lucie Dumas
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London, 1890. It’s no secret that Lucie Dumas is a kept woman. Kept by Monsieur, as she calls him. With the salary and ...Read Review
The House on Rookery Rock
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Family history collides with the present in this compelling dual-timeline novel that follows the three Cane daughters in 1895 and their distant relatives in 2024 ...Read Review
Dust and Wonder
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For roughly a decade after Krakatoa erupted on August 27, 1883, its dust whirled around the earth, especially the southern continents. That’s the “dust” ...Read Review
A Great Act of Love
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I am new to Heather Rose’s writing, but I can’t remember when I have enjoyed reading a book so much. This ...Read Review
Scratch Moss
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Scratch Moss is a small village in the heart of Lancashire coal country. Once a thriving community, its relevance declined years before 2025, when 53...Read Review
A Perfect Hand
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Alice Lockey prides herself as a lady’s maid to Lady Jemima. Lady Jemima is frivolous and vain, indolent and quarrelsome, and very ...Read Review
Mrs Pearcey
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In 1890, a double killing of a woman and her baby in Hampstead, north London, was so brutal it was initially suspected to be ...Read Review
