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  1. Burning Bright
    Chevalier, Tracey
    This is a sweeping and romantic tale set against the historical backdrop of William Blake's London.

  2. The Great Stink
    Clark, Clare
    Returning home from the battlefields of 1855 Crimea, William May struggles to recover from his experiences by working on London's new sewer system, a job that is compromised by a murder accusation that strains his tenuous hold on sanity.

  3. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
    Clarke, Susanna
    All is going well for rich, reclusive Mr Norell, who has regained some of the power of England's magicians from the past, until a rival magician, Jonathan Strange, appears and becomes Mr. Norrell's pupil. Set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century England.

  4. The Meaning of Night: a confession
    Cox, Michael
    A sweeping story of betrayal, delusion and murder, set in Victorian England and narrated by a brilliant and ruthless scholar and bibliophile who is determined to regain the noble patrimony of which he has been cheated.

  5. The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
    Dahlquist, Gordon
    A different tale, seemingly set in Victorian London, follows a jilted young woman's plucky resolve to get to the bottom of her fiance's mysterious disappearance.

  6. The Sealed Letter
    Donoghue, Emma
    Emily "Fido" Faithfull, a spinster pioneer in the British women's movement, is distracted from her cause by the details of her friend's failing marriage and affair with a young army officer, in this drama of friends, lovers, and divorce, Victorian style.

  7. The Iron Horse
    Marston, Edward
    Derby Day at Epsom Downs. A multitude of people crowd to watch the races: dukes and dustmen, bishops and beggars, privileged ladies and prostitutes. With the nation a-flutter in the run up to this national event, a disembodied head is discovered on a passenger train.

  8. The Last Dickens
    Pearl, Matthew
    Daniel Sand was waiting for Charles Dickens' unfinished novel, when he was murdered down by the dock. Daniel's sister Rebecca and his publishing partner, James Osgood, attempt to uncover Dickens' final mystery.

  9. Drood
    Simmons, Dan
    A tale inspired by the mysterious final years of Charles Dickens, finds the fifty-three-year-old literary master irrevocably changed when a train journey with his mistress ends in violence.

  10. Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Wilde, Oscar
    An exquisitely beautiful young man in Victorian England retains his youthful and innocent appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.