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A Novel
by Daisy Goodwin
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by Gregory Blake Smith
Published Jan 2019
Read ReviewsA richly layered novel of love, ambition, and duplicity, set against the storied seascape of Newport, Rhode Island.
by Daisy Goodwin
Published Sep 2017
Read ReviewsDrawing on Queen Victoria's diaries, which she first started reading when she was a student at Cambridge University, Daisy Goodwincreator and writer of the new PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria and author of the bestselling novels The American Heiress and The Fortune Hunterbrings the young nineteenth-century ...
by Anna Freeman
Published Apr 2016
Read ReviewsThe Crimson Petal and the White meets Fight Club: A page-turning novel set in the world of female pugilists and their patrons in late eighteenth-century England.
by Fay Weldon
Published Oct 2013
Read ReviewsFrom the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the launch of a brilliant new trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton Abbey.
by Alan Hollinghurst
Published Aug 2012
Read ReviewsA magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.
by Jane Harris
Published Jan 2012
Read ReviewsFrom the Orange Prize-nominated author of The Observations comes a beautifully conjured and wickedly sharp tale of art and deception in nineteenth-century Scotland.
by Gaynor Arnold
Published Aug 2010
Read ReviewsA sweeping tale of love and loss, Girl in a Blue Dress is both an intimate peek at the woman who was behind one of literatures most esteemed men and a fascinating rumination on marriage that will resonate across centuries.
by Anita Shreve
Published Jan 2001
Read ReviewsA meditation on the erotic life of women, an exploration of class prejudices, and most of all a portrayal of the thoughts and actions of an unforgettable young woman.
by Judy Crichton
Published May 2000
Read ReviewsThe story of this one remarkable year.
It is always darkest just before the day dawneth
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