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Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull. Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless...
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An Infamous Army
An Infamous Army
The Battle of Waterloo. A heart-racing tale of adventure, love and fate against the backdrop of one of the most decisive battles in history by one of the greatest and best-selling romantic novelists of ...
Belgravia
Belgravia
Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. Set in the 1840s when the upper echelons of society began to rub shoulder...
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would `curdle the blood and quicken the ...
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His Bloody Project
His Bloody Project
SHORTLISTED for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016. The year is 1869. A brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish Highlands leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae.
A...
Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell
Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell
Two magicians shall appear in England. The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me ...The year is 1806.
England is beleaguered by the long war with Napoleon, and centuri...
Longbourn
Longbourn
A novel reimagining Pride and Prejudice from the servants' viewpoint.
'If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats,' Sarah thought, 'she would be more careful not to tramp through muddy fields....
Mary Sate Imbecile
Mary Sate Imbecile
I would place it among the classics of this century and the last' Sally Bayley, author of Girl With Dove
If you tell a story oft enough So it become true As the nineteenth century draws towards a clo...
Nelly Dean
Nelly Dean
'Audacious', 'a page-turner' and ' has the makings of a feminist classic' INDEPENDENT A gripping and heartbreaking novel that reimagines life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshaws' loyal serv...
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist is a gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Philip Horne. The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set...
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Poldark: Demelza
Demelza
Demelza Carne, the impoverished miner's daughter Ross Poldark rescued from a fairground rabble, is now his wife. But the events of these turbulent years test their marriage and their love. Demelza's efforts to a...
Resolution
Resolution
A. N. Wilson's powerful new novel explores the life and times of one of the greatest British explorers, Captain Cook, and the golden age of Britain's period of expansion and exploration.
Wilson's protagonist...
Ross Poldark
Ross Poldark
Tired from a grim war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family. But the joyful homecoming he has anticipated turns sour, for his father is dead, his estate is derelict and the girl he lov...
Ruler of The Night
Ruler of The Night
Thomas De Quincey is beginning to control his opium addiction when the excitement of his current case threatens to unravel his grip on reality once and for all. On their way home to the Lake District,...
Soot
Soot
In August, an artist is found murdered in his home - stabbed with a pair of scissors. Matthew Harvey's death is much discussed in the city. The scissors are among the tools of his trade - for Harvey is a renowned c...
The Butcher's Hook
The Butcher's Hook
At nineteen, Anne Jaccob, the elder daughter of well-to-do parents, meets Fub the butcher's apprentice and is awakened to the possibilities of joy and passion. Anne lives a sheltered life: her home is...
The Child Of Ill Fortune
Kitty Peck : Child of Ill Fortune
This is a fast-paced historical mystery with breath-taking twists and turns that takes us from the bohemian world of late 19th-Century Paris to a deadly secret at the heart of the Briti...
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The Dark Clue
The Dark Clue
Walter Hartwright is married, prosperous and a little bored. When he is approached to write a life of the painter Turner he accepts, unaware that his subject lived a life more dark than light. Researching ...
The Mermaid And Mrs Hancock
The Mermaid And Mrs Hancock
A Sunday Times bestseller, now longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Desmond Elliott Prize 2018.
`A brilliantly plotted story of mermaids, madams and intrigue in 1780s London...
The Wicked Trade And The Suffragette's Secret
The Wicked Trade & Suffragette's Secret : genealogical crime mysteries
The Wicked Trade When Morton Farrier is presented with a case revolving around a mysterious letter written by disreputable criminal, Ann Fothergill ...
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