Chatto & Windus
The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones
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Tristan Hart is a product of his time (the mid-18th century): conversant in Enlightenment philosophy but puzzled by the mechanics of the ...Read Review
Merivel: A Man of His Time
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This is a sequel to Tremain’s 1989 novel, Restoration, which was a memoir of Sir Robert Merivel, physician, bon-viveur, friend of Charles II ...Read Review
Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household
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Queen Victoria presided over a vast household of servants, but this is not a book about the drudgery of scullery maids and stable ...Read Review
Bertie: A Life of Edward VII
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This isn’t yet another biography of the irresponsible, hedonistic heir to the throne who became king far too late in life and ...Read Review
The Uninvited Guests
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This is a bizarre and fantastic story, which takes place over 24 hours in Sterne – a substantial English country house. But the Swifts, the ...Read Review
Little Bones
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Jane Stretch is fifteen and crippled when her questionable parents and pretty older sister abandon her at the mercy of their latest landlady. ...Read Review
The Wine of Solitude
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First published in France in 1935 yet only available in English since 2011, The Wine of Solitude is the most autobiographical novel of Irène ...Read Review
Moll: The Life and Times of Moll Flanders
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The eponymous heroine of Daniel Defoe’s novel, first published in 1722, is a well-known icon of female depravity. Moll was a serial bigamist ...Read Review
Cross My Palm
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London ladies in the 1860s loved to hold supper parties and have their fortunes told. Fortune-teller Miss Rose Lee is taken up by ...Read Review
Derby Day
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Any reader who likes the gentle and considered narratives of the novels of Trollope or Thackeray should enjoy this work of fiction. Indeed ...Read Review