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Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When the married Isabella Robinson was introduced to the dashing Edward Lane at a party in 1850, she was utterly enchanted. He was 'fascinating', she told her diary, before chastising herself for being so susceptible to a man's charms. But a wish had taken hold of her, and she was to find it hard to sha ...Show more
Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
On a mild winter's evening in 1850, Isabella Robinson set out for a party. Her carriage bumped across the wide cobbled streets of Edinburgh's Georgian New Town and drew up at 8 Royal Circus, a grand sandstone house lit by gas lamps. This was the home of the rich widow Lady Drysdale, a vivacious hostess ...Show more
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions by KATE SUMMERSCALE
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Category: History
A thrilling compendium of our deepest fears and obsessions by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. Ever been struck dumb when speaking in public? You might be suffering from glossophobia. Do your book-buying habits verge on bibliomania? Do you recoil in arachnophobic horror at the si ...Show more
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY'As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read' SARAH WATERSLondon, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor - a Jewish-Hungarian refug ...Show more
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Bloomsbury Modern Classics by Kate Summerscale
17.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher - Or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale
22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
An exquisite new edition of the true crime classic; 'a classic' (John le Carré)Saville's corpse, already stiff, was laid on a table beneath the kitchen window; upstairs the shape of his sleeping self was still indented on the sheets and pillow of the cot.On a summer's morning in 1860, the Kent family aw ...Show more
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale
19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome ...Show more
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
27.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, a ...Show more
Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The gripping, fascinating account of a shocking murder case that sent late Victorian Britain into a frenzy, by the number one bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher 'Her research is needle-sharp and her period detail richly atmospheric, but what is most heartening about ...Show more
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