Alexander McCall Smith meets Sarah Waters in?an effervescent new series with a glamorous, witty heroine?think 1870s Murder She Wrote?London, 1875. At Lady Cornford's famous soiree (sugared almonds and
In 1973, Brian Thompson kissed the impossibly glamorous Elizabeth North for the first time, in a busy supermarket car park along the Leeds ring road. This is the story of the unexpectedly joyous conse
This is a portrait of Martin Tupper, the quintessential Victorian, who, in in 1842, wrote the first of a series entitled "Proverbial Philosophy", a moral self-improvement manual. Full of hearty evange
