"This time the gossip columnists have it wrong. London's most elusive bachelor Anthony Bridgerton hasn't just decided to marry-he's even chosen a wife! The only obstacle is his intended's older sister, Kate Sheffield-the most meddlesome woman ever to grace a London ballroom. The spirited schemer is driving Anthony mad with her determination to stop the betrothal, but when he closes his eyes at night, Kate's the woman haunting his increasingly erotic...

Though Monk is witness to the terrible bombing of an afternoon pleasure boat on the river that leaves 200 people dead, much to his dismay the case is taken from his hands and given over to the commissioner of police. An Egyptian man is quickly caught, tried, and sentenced to death--and then just as swiftly murdered in prison. When evidence surfaces that proves the dead man innocent, the case is handed back to Monk, who must now rely on his own memory...

Eighteen years after her disappearance, Serafina Finn's father hires detective Adam Chapman to discover the truth.

Simplified Chinese edition of Liza of Lambeth by W.Somerset Maugham Presents the story about a young, working girl in a poor London neighborhood. Her sad story is the story of poverty everywhere. 《兰贝斯的丽莎》是毛姆长篇小说的处女作和成名作。 　　一八九二年十月三日，十八岁的毛姆成为伦敦圣托马斯医院医学院的一名学生，为期五年的学医生涯，不仅使他有机会了解到底层人民的生活状况，而且使他学会用解剖刀一样冷峻、犀利的目光来剖视人生和社会。他的第一部小说《兰贝斯的丽莎》，即根据他作为见习医生在贫民区为产妇接生时的见闻用自然主义手法写成。它描写的是贫民窟的一个与寡母相依为命的漂亮姑娘丽莎短促的一生和悲剧性的死亡，通过一个劳工阶层的通奸故事真切地反映出世纪之交劳工阶层的伦敦人的日常生活。真实、大胆，又富含同情的幽默。...

Sixteen-year-old Molly Fraser works as a nurse with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War to earn a salary to help her family survive in nineteenth-century England.

Henry Rathbone is called by an old friend whose son has gone missing just before the Christmas holiday. Now in his early twenties, Lucien has known trouble for some time and has often fallen victim to the vices of drugs, alcohol, and women. His father now fears the worst. Their old friend, Squeaky Robinson, volunteers to help as well. Henry agrees and, joined by Crow, a young doctor at the clinic, the pair trawls the pubs, brothels, and opium dens...

A historical novel about the poet John Clare; his fall into madness, his stay in a mental institution, and Alfred Tennyson's involvement with the asylum's owner and the owner's adolescent daughter.

Newlyweds Tom and Helen Ansell find their lives turned upside down after Helen is accused of murder and they are drawn into the underworld of spiritualism and stage magic while visiting the Durham.

2011: When Madeleine loses her job as a lecturer, she decides to leave her riverside flat in cobbled Stew Lane, where history never feels far away and move to Apricot Place. Yet here too, in this quiet Walworth cul-de-sac, she senses the past encroaching: a shifting in the atmosphere, a current of unseen life. 1851: Joseph Benson has been employed by Henry Mayhew to help research his articles on the working classes. A family man with mouths to feed,...

For an impeccable gentleman's butler like Sebastian Michaelis, the word "impossible" is just not in his vocabulary. Everything demanded of him under the English sun is well within his grasp. But do his talents extend to things under the scalding Indian sun?! As Harold West-Jeb's plan to use Agni, Prince Soma's superhuman butler, in a curry battle to win himself a Royal Warrant is exposed, Earl Ciel Phantomhive sets Sebastian to the task of creating...