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
Kidnap, cricket and cross-dressing: all in a day's work for Brian Thompson's Bella Wallis.Bella Wallis's clandestine career as crime novelist Henry Ellis Margam is proving as successful as ever, but,
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
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
Born to fanatically snobbish Victorian parents, Georgina Weldon grew up to wreak havoc on almost everyone she met. She was supposed to marry well and restore the family fortune, but soon proved to hav
