Madness, greed, love, obsession, Machiavellian plotting, and a great train robbery, in a captivating Victorian mystery about the extreme and curious things men do to get—and keep—what they want August 1863. Henry Ireland, a failed landowner, dies unexpectedly in a riding accident, leaving a highl...
This short novel tells the disturbing tale of a Victorian girl named Harriett Frean and her attempt to live a "morally beautiful" life... a decision that becomes more difficult when she falls in love with her best friend's fiancé. The story calls into question whether or not doing the moral thing...
Very neat on his toes, minds the whip, but is not its slave. Mr Solloway rode him previous and may well do again. Will sit upon the rail, if not steered elsewhere. Lost against COALHEAVER in March but carried a stone and was full of running at the finish, and Mr Solloway confessed an error on his...
But the cry faded away, leaving her stranded and inert, with only the sound of Jamie breathing heavily into his pillow and the patter of the travelling alarm clock to break the silence. It was 5am, but not, Claire thought, quite as cold as it might have been. Still oppressed by the various neuros...