Victorian London
Horror in Victorian Hampstead: Mrs Pearcey, by Lottie Moggach, reviewed
A fledgling female journalist fights hard to exonerate an impoverished woman accused of double murder
After the Flood: There Are Rivers in the Sky, by Elif Shafak, reviewed
Water – essential to life and civilisation, but also a potentially destructive force – is the theme linking three disparate strands in Shafak’s magnificent new novel
A mingling of blood and ink
Historical fiction is sometimes accused of being remote from modern concerns, a flight towards nostalgia and fantasy. It’s not an…
