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  • They Gave Me a Hurricane

    by Charles Palliser ...
    As a teenager ‘Tich’ Palliser became ‘hooked on this flying game’ and aspired to take to the skies. The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve provided the opportunity and a few months before the Second World War broke out the Yorkshire-born novice was called-up to learn and develop his skills as a combat fighter pilot. In August 1940 the young sergeant aviator, at the controls of a Hawker Hurricane, ... Read more

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  • The Quincunx: The Huffams

    by Charles Palliser ...
    Series Book 1 - The Quincunx
    An unnamed menace, an ancient document… five families torn apart. An unputdownable and bestselling historical mysteryJohn Mellamphy's life is under threat. In the remote countryside, his mother, Mary, has been burgled in mysterious circumstances. Then her protector, Mr Fortisquince, is suddenly murdered in London.Mysterious forces are at work looking for an old document, the key to an enormous ... Read more

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  • Sufferance

    by Charles Palliser ...
    From the author of the international bestseller The Quincunx.Set in Eastern Europe during the Second World War. When his nation is invaded and occupied by a brutal enemy, a well-intentioned man persuades his wife that they should give temporary shelter to a young girl who is at school with their daughter. He has no idea that the girl belongs to a community against whom the invader intends to ... Read more

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  • Rustication

    A Novel

    by Charles Palliser ...
    One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year. "A literary Dr. Frankenstein, [Palliser] has stitched together parts of Jane Austen and Edgar Allan Poe. The result is deliciously wicked." —Ron Charles, Washington PostCharles Palliser's work has been hailed as "so compulsively absorbing that reality disappears" ( New York Times). Since his extraordinary debut, The Quincunx, his works have sold ... Read more

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  • The Quincunx

    A Novel

    by Charles Palliser ...
    An extraordinary modern novel in the Victorian tradition, Charles Palliser has created something extraordinary—a plot within a plot within a plot of family secrets, mysterious clues, low-born birth, high-reaching immorality, and, always, always the fog-enshrouded, enigmatic character of 19th century—London itself.“So compulsively absorbing that reality disappears . . . One is swept along by those ... Read more

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  • The Quincunx: The Mompessons

    by Charles Palliser ...
    Series Book 2 - The Quincunx
    Desperate times and darker mysteries abound in this extraordinary historical thrillerWith their savings rapidly running out, and the world turning against them, John and his mother are pursued by bailiffs and forced to move. Taking refuge with the Isbister family, they flee upon discovering a shocking dark side to their hosts.But then their luck seems to change when they discover the hospitable ... Read more

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  • The Quincunx: The Clothiers

    by Charles Palliser ...
    Series Book 3 - The Quincunx
    Thieves, mansions and murders… no one can be trusted in this classic historical mysteryThe tangled threads of family conspiracy and dark intentions will not let John Mellamphy rest. Seeking help from Henry Bellringer, a relation of a school friend, he instead finds himself in a nest of thieves.Reading his mother's journal, with tantalising details of his parentage, his grandfather's murder and his ... Read more

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  • The Quincunx: The Palphramonds

    by Charles Palliser ...
    Series Book 4 - The Quincunx
    A classic Victorian mystery full of intrigue, deadly plots and devastating twists and turnsFalsely imprisoned in an asylum, John escapes from their clutches with the help of the kindly Digweed family. Starting a new life in hiding with them may feel safer, but they survive by scavenging the sewers of London.Summoning his strength, and on discovering the existence of a second will that could be his ... Read more

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  • The Quincunx: The Maliphants

    by Charles Palliser ...
    Series Book 5 - The Quincunx
    The final gripping part of this classic historical mysteryWith the will finally in his grasp, John may be able to prove his inheritance, and put an end to the deadly plots and endless machinations that have plagued his life. But betrayal hides around every corner. Will justice narrowly fall through his fingers one last time?Upon uncovering a dastardly plot to trick Henrietta into a marriage that ... Read more

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    A Victorian Gothic Thriller

    by Annelie Wendeberg ...
    Series Book 2 - Keeper of Pleas
    Coroner Sévère has it all: a beautiful young wife, money, influence — and secrets to kill for.A disease slowly claims his mobility while his wife Olivia harbours her own danger: she once belonged to Chief Magistrate Frost, a man with cruel appetites. When Sévère and Olivia investigate Chief Magistrate Frost's crimes, more than the Coroner’s career is at risk.Sévère might find himself at the ... Read more

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  • Keeper of Pleas

    A Victorian Noir Mystery

    by Annelie Wendeberg ...
    Series Book 1 - Keeper of Pleas
    December 1880, Whitechapel. Nine dead infants in flowerpots. A vanished mortician. And one lead: the prostitute who saw him last.Coroner Sévère reads people's lies as easily as case notes. It's made him an effective investigator. And cynical. But when he questions Miss Mary, he encounters something unexpected: a woman whose lies he can't read and who might as well be the mortician's killer.In a ... Read more

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  • River of Bones

    A Victorian Gothic Thriller

    by Annelie Wendeberg ...
    Series Book 2 - Arlington & McCurley Mysteries
    A mute boy. A murdered journalist. A conspiracy written on counterfeit bills.When Inspector McCurley finds a deaf boy huddled against a corpse, he expects a simple murder case. But the dead man was investigating something that powerful people need buried.And the boy saw everything.McCurley turns to Dr Elizabeth Arlington — the one person who might reach the traumatised child. As she coaxes words ... Read more

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