Portrait of Peril: A Victorian Mystery (Rowland Laura Joh)(Pevná vazba)

Incense Game (Rowland Laura Joh)(Paperback)

An RT Book Review Magazine Reviewers' Choice Award WinnerIn the wake of a terrifying earthquake, Sano Ichiro races to solve a crime that could bring down the shogun's regimeJapan, 1703. A devastating earthquake has left the city of Edo in shambles--even the shogun's carefully regulated court is

The Sign of Death: A Victorian Book Club Mystery (Hutton Callie)(Pevná vazba)

USA Today bestselling author Callie Hutton returns with her second Victorian Book Club mystery, in which Lady Amy and Lord William sleuth the death of a teetotaler who took a fatal dunk in the drink. Bath, England, 1891. Mr. James Harding was a lot of things--businessman, well-to-do, probable

The Iris Fan: A Novel of Feudal Japan (Rowland Laura Joh)(Paperback)

Riveting and richly imagined, with a magnificent sense of time and place, The Iris Fan is the triumphant conclusion to Laura Joh Rowland's brilliant series of thrillers set in feudal Japan. Japan, 1709. The shogun is old and ailing. Amid the ever-treacherous intrigue in the court, Sano Ichiro has

The Wages of Sin (Cutler Judith)(Pevná vazba)

First in a brand-new Victorian mystery series featuring steward Matthew Rowsley and housekeeper Mrs Faulkner as an engaging detective duo. Newly appointed as land agent to the youthful Lord Croft, Matthew Rowsley finds plenty to keep him busy as he attends to his lordship's neglected country

The Wages of Sin (Cutler Judith)(Pevná vazba)

First in a brand-new Victorian mystery series featuring steward Matthew Rowsley and housekeeper Mrs Faulkner as an engaging detective duo. Newly appointed as land agent to the youthful Lord Croft, Matthew Rowsley finds plenty to keep him busy as he attends to his lordship's neglected country

Diabolical Bones - A gripping gothic mystery set in Victorian Yorkshire (Ellis Bella)(Pevná vazba)

A new Bronte Mystery from Bella Ellis, a pen name for bestselling author, Rowan

Hirta - A Portrait of St Kilda (Boyd Alex)(Pevná vazba)

Strangers on a Pier - Portrait of a Family (Aw Tash)(Pevná vazba)

Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature (Steer Philip)(Pevná vazba)

How did the emigration of nineteenth-century Britons to colonies of settlement shape Victorian literature? Philip Steer uncovers productive networks of writers and texts spanning Britain, Australia, and New Zealand to argue that the novel and political economy found common colonial ground over

Constance in Peril (Manley Ben)(Pevná vazba)

The darkly witty story of Constance Hardpenny, a rag doll of character and

Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen: Peril at Owl Park (Jocelyn Marthe)(Pevná vazba)

For young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, Christmas becomes a lot more exciting when a dead body is found in this second book in the Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series, inspired by the life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of The

Marie Duval: Maverick Victorian Cartoonist (Grennan Simon)(Pevná vazba)

Marie Duval: maverick Victorian cartoonist offers the first critical appraisal of the work of Marie Duval (Isabelle milie de Tessier, 1847-1890), one of the most unusual, pioneering and visionary cartoonists of the later nineteenth century. It discusses key themes and practices of Duval's vision

Fenwomen - A Portrait of Women in an English Village (Chamberlain Mary)(Pevná vazba)

Mystery of the Blue Train (Christie Agatha)(Pevná vazba)

A Fiance's Guide to First Wives and Murder (Freeman Dianne)(Pevná vazba)

In Dianne Freeman's lighthearted mystery series set in Victorian England, the American-born Countess of Harleigh uncovers more deadly intrigue among the uppercrust... For Frances Wynn, widow to the late Earl of Harleigh, life has a cosmopolitan flavor of late. No sooner has she sent her mother and

Peril (Woodward Bob)(Pevná vazba)

The book covers the end of the Trump presidency and the early months of the Biden

The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories (Moore Tara)(Pevná vazba)

The first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, culled from rare 19th-century periodicals During the Victorian era, it became traditional for publishers of newspapers and magazines to print ghost stories during the Christmas season for chilling winter reading by the fireside or

Peril (Woodward Bob)(Pevná vazba)

Bob Woodward and Robert Costa's compelling account of the presidential transition from Donald Trump to Joe

Victorian Tragedy: The Extraordinary Case of Banks v Goodfellow (Frost Martyn)(Pevná vazba)

'A Victorian Tragedy', for the first time, describes how the landmark court case of Banks v Goodfellow (1870) came about, what happened to the protagonists and how an enlightened judgment provided a practical definition of testamentary capacity that has since been used throughout the common law

Articulating Bodies: The Narrative Form of Disability and Illness in Victorian Fiction (Hingston Kylee-Anne)(Pevná vazba)

Articulating Bodies investigates the contemporaneous developments of Victorian fiction and disability's medicalization by focusing on the intersection between narrative form and body. The book examines texts from across the century, from Frederic Shoberl's 1833 English translation of Victor Hugo's

Garden of Mystery: The Gulshan-I Raz of Mahmud Shabistari (Shabistari Mahmud)(Pevná vazba)

Cholera: The Victorian Plague (Thomas Amanda J.)(Pevná vazba)

Discover the story of the disease that devastated the Victorian population, and brought about major changes in sanitation. Drawing on the latest scientific research and a wealth of archival material, Amanda Thomas uses firs-hand accounts, blending personal stories with an overview of the history of

Tussie-Mussies: A Collector's Guide to Victorian Posy Holders (Deitsch Irene)(Pevná vazba)

Tussie-Mussies: A Collector's Guide to Victorian Posy Holders offers new insight into a world of secrets and beauty that most people in modern times have long forgotten. The book provides an overview of how and why the tussie-mussie came into use, and reveals the abundance of styles and shapes it

The Penny Politics of Victorian Popular Fiction (Breton Rob)(Pevná vazba)

Penny politics examines the way Victorian popular literature from the 1830s and 1840s attempted to appeal to working-class audiences by including overtures to radical and at times explicitly Chartist politics.The book challenges the approach to 'low life' or crime literature that sees it as merely