Kate Griffin’s new novel, Fyneshade, takes her love of Victorian Gothic to a new level. Who could be better to select the top six film and TV adaptations of the ultimate governess in a strange house story, Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, for its 125th anniversary? The year 1898 saw the publication of […]
Top ten films set in the Victorian era
Kate Griffin admits that films have influenced the world of her Victorian melodramas. On the publication of the fourth book in her Kitty Peck series, she offers a viewing top ten. One Christmas towards the end of the 1970s I made a teenage stand against the tyranny of spending Boxing Day evening with my parents’ […]


