After her heartbreaking first Season, Elizabeth Ashling resolved to avoid London Society – and matrimony – completely. However, family obligations mean that Elizabeth is thrust back into society where she faces an overzealous poet, a bitter rival and, most awkwardly, the man who jilted her three years before. Sir Lucius Radstock, dry, dashing and as […]
The Mysterious Poisoning of Charles Bravo by Angela Buckley
In April 1876, Charles Bravo, a young London barrister, died in agony at his Balham home after ingesting a lethal dose of antimony. His death shocked Victorian society and set in motion one of the most baffling and sensational investigations of the 19th century. Despite two lengthy inquests, the question of who poisoned Charles Bravo […]
Mrs Dickens by Emily Howes
London in 1835, and 19-year-old Kate Hogarth falls in love with the young journalist Charles Dickens. In the early days of their marriage, Charles is infatuated with his bride and Kate delights in her new life, the balm to her husband’s irrepressible spirit. But as he finds fame as a novelist and the family rise […]
Dwell by Rue Baldry
In January, 1919, a new gardener at a snowbound boarding school catches everyone’s attention. It’s rumoured he is a war hero. He’s 19-year-old Albert, haunted by Great War experiences and fighting the temptation of one particular prefect. What they want is illegal. Being caught would ruin them. Then Albert’s past finds him, making their quest […]
A Fatal Choice by Alison Baxter
Julia Pennefather has spent her life longing for the security of a home and family. Ellen Fugill knows the price of loyalty in a world where servants are expected to see everything and say nothing. And talented Ada Ashley arrives concealing a secret past that makes her painfully vulnerable. When disaster strikes, the women do […]
No Saints Only Killers by Luke Deckard
In 1922, American ex-pat Logan Bishop is a war-damaged, morphine-dependent private investigator. When his estranged father, Reverend Daniel Bishop, arrives in London from Chicago, Logan refuses to see him — until his father is brutally attacked. Before slipping into a coma, Daniel leaves Logan with a desperate plea: find Greta Matas, a woman tied to […]
Sherlock Holmes and the Aeronauts by Linda Stratmann
The death in 1879 of a young mathematician, Aubrey Soames, appears to be accidental, but Sherlock Holmes suspects a cleverly planned murder may have taken place. The son of Sir Finlay Soames, a senior official at the War Office, Aubrey was helping the intrepid aeronaut Lord Callender to design a dirigible balloon. Adventure magazine is […]
Bede: the man who invented England by Edoardo Albert
What is England, and who are the English? The man who first posed and answered these questions lived 1,200 years ago in Northumberland. The Venerable Bede spent almost his whole life in two monasteries looking over the North Sea, far from the centres of civilisation. Yet he became the foremost scholar of the first millennium, […]