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"On the narrative level alone, this is a compelling combination of Victorian pastiche and psychological thriller, fully and vividly imagined and ... More

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Draws us into the twilit world of Edwin Reardon, a struggling novelist, and his friends and acquaintances in Grub Street including Jasper Milvain, an ... More

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New Grub Street (1891), George Gissing's most highly regarded novel, is the story of men and women forced to make their living by writing. Their ... More

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New Grub Street (1891), George Gissing's most highly regarded novel, is the story of men and women forced to make their living by writing. Their ... More

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Ten years earlier, Arcadia Hearne fled Toronto for London after two university students, rivals for her love, fought a pistol duel over her. Through ... More

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'Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It is a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters, ... More

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'In the midst of life we are in death.' London in the early 1850s. The squalid underbelly of the Victorian slums coexist in uneasy partnership with ... More

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In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.

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Set in the romantic world of Victorian London, "Selene of the Spirits" is the fascinating story of a beautiful young woman with psychic powers who ... More

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Set in the romantic world of Victorian London, Selene of the Spirits is the fascinating story of a beautiful young woman with psychic powers who ... More

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Sealed for 125 years, a secret manuscript by Charles Dickens' friend and some-time collaborator Wilkie Collins, reveals the dark secret that obsessed ... More

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Gripping from the first page, this immense novel is an intoxicating and deeply satisfying read. Faber's most ambitious fictional creation yet, it is ... More

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A family in Victorian England is dogged by its history of wealth and murder. A young man's search for justice drives him to the impoverished, corrupt ... More

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When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual ... More

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An epic, ambitious and page-turning mystery that will appeal to fans of The Shadow of the Wind, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and The Time ... More

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LennoxOs novel, published in 1750, is the first novel of a well-respected author whose work demands significant critical attention. This volume ... More

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A Harlot's Progress reinvents William Hogarth's famous print of 1732, which tells the story of a prostitute, a Jewish merchant, a magistrate, and a ... More

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Nicky finds his mate Vinnie at the bottom of a block of flats, feet sawn off, pushed from the 14th floor after getting on the wrong side of the local ... More

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The Ratcliffe Highway murders of 1811 were the most notorious mass killings in their day. Never fully explained, they brought London and all of ... More

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- Sherlock Holmes is one of literature's most beloved characters: Ever since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created the character of detective Sherlock ... More

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At the heart of this sweeping, panoramic novel, set in Regency London and Spain during the Peninsular War, stands the lively, outspoken Harriet, ... More

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It is 1887, and an unsettled London is preparing for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful, bohemian wife of a ... More

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