Geraldine Perriam
The Clay Dreaming
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This novel is set in London in May 1868 during the tour by the first Australian cricket team ever to come to England. The ...Read Review
Lord Dancy’s Delight
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Amelia Longworth is travelling to England from Macaovia Portugal when she encounters Lord Dancy, returning from military duties on the Peninsula. He saves ...Read Review
Bath Belles
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Belle Haley travels with her mother and younger sister from Bath to London to inspect the house her murdered fiancé, Graham, left her ...Read Review
The Winter Ground
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The latest Dandy Gilver mystery is set in Perthshire in 1925/26 on the estate of Albert Wilson, a wealthy brickmaker (“the name tells you ...Read Review
Remittance Man
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Set in Melbourne in 1885, this novel centres on Maude Hanford, “short, not quite pretty” and seeming to be as mousy as her hair. ...Read Review
Earls of Paradise
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This book explores the vision of Arcadia told through the life of a place and its inhabitants. The place is Wilton, in Wiltshire, ...Read Review
The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation
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In the late 1690s, a bookseller named Jacob Tonson began a scheme of paying young writers by feeding them in return for the ...Read Review
Long Shadows
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Alice Chase, once a Londoner and now, in 1939, the wife of Walter, a saw mill worker in Somerset, contends with the lives and ...Read Review
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon & the Congress of Vienna
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This is an astonishingly rich work, packed with detail and analysis. Not simply about the Congress of Vienna, it establishes the historical context ...Read Review
Edward VI: The Lost King of England
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The ‘tagline’ of this work is ‘the struggle for the soul of England after the death of Henry VIII’. This is important because ...Read Review
