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Author
Series
The Greyladies Trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
1900. The death of her father forces Harriet out of her home to escape the advances of her stepbrother, the rule of her stepmother, and into service at Dalton House. Over time Harriet develops a friendship with the Dalton's crippled son Joseph but her life is changed completely when she inherits Greyladies, a haunted house.
Author
Series
The House of Falconer volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
London 1889: Victorian London is a place of wealth, privilege and poverty, a city of extremes. For James Falconer, who grew up as a barrow boy on a London market, it is a city of opportunity. Working his way up Henry Malvern's trading company in Piccadilly, James faces fraud and betrayal. A fierce rivalry develops with Henry's daughter and heir Alexis - but their animosity masks a powerful attraction. Embarking on a love affair with the daughter of...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
1866. In a coastal village in southern England, Nell picks violets for a living. Set apart by her community because of the birthmarks that speckle her skin, Nell's world is her beloved brother and devotion to the sea. But when Jasper Jupiter's Circus of Wonders arrives in the village, Nell is kidnapped. Her father has sold her, promising Jasper Jupiter his very own leopard girl. It is the greatest betrayal of Nell's life, but as her fame grows, and...
Author
Publisher
Granta
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
'Bodies of Light' is a deeply poignant tale of a psychologically tumultuous 19th century upbringing set in the atmospheric world of pre-Raphaelitism and the early suffrage movement. Ally (older sister of May in 'Night Waking'), is intelligent, studious and engaged in an eternal - and losing - battle to gain her mother's approval and affection. Her mother, Elizabeth, is a religious zealot, keener on feeding the poor and saving prostitutes than on embracing...
Author
Series
Rockwood chronicles volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by their parents and left to fight for themselves, headstrong Rosalind Carey has no choice but to take charge of her younger brothers and sister in Devonshire's grand Rockwood Castle. But their once much-loved home is crumbling like the family that lives within it. Living hand to mouth and desperate to provide for the estate that depends on them, the Carey family are one debt away from ruin. Until the day comes when the dashing Piers Blanchard...
Author
Series
The House of Falconer volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
London 1884: Queen Victoria is Empress of India and Britain at its peak of worldwide power. James Falconer, known as Jimmy, is a barrow boy working for his father on the stalls in the Malvern Market. Alexis Malvern is an only child, raised by her father, Henry, who has built a real estate empire in London and a successful trading business in Le Havre. Trained by her father and heir to his businesses, Alexis has no interest in marrying. But when James...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In 1875, Sisi, the Empress of Austria is the woman that every man desires and every woman envies. Beautiful, athletic and intelligent, Sisi has everything - except happiness. Bored with the stultifying etiquette of the Hapsburg Court and her dutiful but unexciting husband, Franz Joseph, Sisi comes to England to hunt. She comes looking for excitement and she finds it in the dashing form of Captain Bay Middleton, the only man in Europe who can outride...
Author
Publisher
Piatkus
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The year is 1850, and Susannah Charlesworth loves the estate and open air life of the North Lincolnshire Wolds. She stands to become a very rich woman too - inheriting the estate, as well as her father's and uncle's wealth, one day. She meets the dashing Daniel Bullen and her life is about to change forever.
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
From the author of the bestselling EMPIRE OF THE DEEP, a globe-spanning narrative history of the 1850s - a time of electrifying change - seen through the eyes of the men and women who embraced the adventurous spirit of the times
Author
Publisher
Curious Fox
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In rural Bethnal Green, Lizzie Brown takes pity on a couple of drunks and gives them a free palm reading. However, she is horrified when she has a vision of one of the pair meeting a great danger in a graveyard at midnight. She sees a huge black hound with flashing eyes mauling him. Lizzie and the Penny Gaff Gang track down the dog, who belongs to a ruthless team of professional grave robbers. It's up to the gang to expose their vile trade before...
14) The last pearl
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Uk Ltd
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Set in York in 1870, 'The Last Pearl' is a novel from the author of 'The Postcard' and 'The Captain's Daughter'.
Author
Series
Publisher
Snowbooks
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Returing from his failed mission to find the source of the Nile, Sir Richard Francis Burton finds himself sucked into the perilous depths of Albertian Britain when the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, employs him as 'King's Spy'. His first mission is to investigate a serious of sexual assaults committed by a strange apparition.
Author
Series
Burton and Swinburne volume 2
Publisher
Snowbooks
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Returning from his failed expedition to find the source of the Nile, explorer, linguist, scholar and swordsman Sir Richard Francis Burton finds himself sucked into the perilous depths of this moral and ethical vacuum when the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, employs him as 'King's Spy'.
Author
Series
Burton and Swinburne volume 3
Publisher
Snowbooks
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
It is 1863, but not the one it should be. Time has veered wildly off course, and moves are being made that will lead to a devasating world war. Prime Minister Lord Palmerston believes that three mystic gemstones can help him to alter his country's destiny.
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Having returned from his expedition to the future, Burton reveals to the authorities what he witnessed there. In response, prime minister Disraeli initiates a programme whereby the empire's elite have their consciousnesses transferred into mechanical bodies, thereby ensuring eternal rule. As a brutal plutocracy emerges, Burton and Swinburne find themselves leading a revolution.
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