The Doll Factory
By: Elizabeth Macneal
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession …
Want to Read $ 11.99"You have everything you want! You cleave to your principles, and you are a man with the advantage of station! This - this interaction with me - it doesn't degrade you. In the eyes of the world, it makes you a rake, but it makes me a whore.' He flinches, and she says it again, louder. 'Yes, a whore! And what of my principles? What of the way I'm looked at, sneered at even by your charwoman? Your mere mistress - and if you discarded me I'd have nothing."-Elizabeth Macneal, The Doll Factory
"You have everything you want! You cleave to your principles, and you are a man with the advantage of station! This - this interaction with me - it doesn't degrade you. In the eyes of the world, it makes you a rake, but it makes me a whore.' He flinches, and she says it again, louder. 'Yes, a whore! And what of my principles? What of the way I'm looked at, sneered at even by your charwoman? Your mere mistress - and if you discarded me I'd have nothing."-Elizabeth Macneal, The Doll Factory
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1. The Silent Companions
By: Laura Purcell
4.46
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country e… read more
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2. The Muse
By: Jessie Burton
4.00
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller A picture hides a thousand words . . . On a hot July day in … read more
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3. The Miniaturist
By: Jessie Burton
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam--a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion--a … read more
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4. Isabella Warrior Queen
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.30
Format: None pages, ebook
The complete story of Isabella, her husband King Edward II, their son who was King Edward III and t… read more
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- historical
"Eliza answered, “My Lady, that was Sir Roger Mortimer!"-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
"Cynthia said, “How are things going for you with this birth?"-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
"When speaking to her husband, Isabella replied, Mon tresdoutz coer, (My very sweet heart) please do that and perhaps I shall be able to continue to perform official functions on your behalf!"-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
"On the 16th of Febuary 1312, when Isabella was aged sixteen years, the couple were at their hunting lodge when Edward suddenly took Isabella into his arms and began to kiss her and pay her a lot of a…"-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen
5. The List of Suspicious Things
By: Jennie Godfrey
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
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6. The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights
By: Bridget Collins
4.06
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the creators of The Haunting Season comes a dazzling collection of never-before-seen ghostly t… read more
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- gothic
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- historical fiction
7. The Familiars
By: Stacey Halls
3.88
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. None of her previous pregnancies h… read more
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- gothic
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Respect is earned, not demanded."-Stacey Halls, The Familiars
"Loyalty is earned, not demanded."-Stacey Halls, The Familiars
"Si el diablo es pobreza, hambre y dolor, entonces sí, creo que lo conocen."-Stacey Halls, The Familiars
"Egy leánygyermek élete ugyanaz, mint egy feleségé – épp csak egy másik férfi mondja meg, mit csinálj."-Stacey Halls, The Familiars
8. The Household
By: Stacey Halls
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more
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- gothic
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- victorian
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9. Victor's Blessing
By: Barbara Sontheimer
4.34
Format: 582 pages, Paperback
Victor Gant, a 6'5" half-Osage blacksmith is an unusual hero for a Civil War love story. But Victor… read more
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- romance
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Then wake up my sweet, wake up knowing that your future is to be happy, and that your heart will heal."-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid. Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six."-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"He turned and smiled resolvedly at her. He knew no one else would ever understand that for Arvellen, sex only had to do with friendship and of pleasing one another, and nothing at all to do with wha…"-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
"I'm afraid!" She cried breaking free from his embrace. But this time, he refused to let her go. "No, no, no, you're not afraid of me! What am I...a foot and half taller than you and out weigh you b…"-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing
10. The Maiden
By: Kate Foster
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more
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- gothic
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11. Mrs England
By: Stacey Halls
3.91
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more
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- gothic
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
12. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
By: Jessie Burton
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
13. The Doll Factory
By: Elizabeth Macneal
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession … read more
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- romance
- gothic
- historical
- victorian
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- horror
- audiobook
"You have everything you want! You cleave to your principles, and you are a man with the advantage of station! This - this interaction with me - it doesn't degrade you. In the eyes of the world, it ma…"-Elizabeth Macneal, The Doll Factory
14. The Foundling
By: Stacey Halls
3.99
Format: 400 pages, ebook
London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hosp… read more
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- gothic
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
"Waarom moesten we de kaarten die ons waren toebedeeld, klakkeloos accepteren?"-Stacey Halls, The Foundling
"Mijn wereld was gekrompen tot de grootte van een walnoot. En toen was Daniel naar een van tante Cassandra's feestjes gekomen en had hij de noot gekraakt."-Stacey Halls, The Foundling
15. The Square of Sevens
By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson
4.14
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her long-dead mother … read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
"If time with those we love is measured by the hourglass, then God’s greatest cruelty is not to let us see the size of that vessel."-Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens
16. The Confessions of Frannie Langton
By: Sara Collins
3.57
Format: 384 pages, ebook
A servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this astonishing hi… read more
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- gothic
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
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"What did Shakespeare know? Love must alter, or it can't survive."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"there were two things I loved: all those books I read, and all the people who wrote them."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"A man writes to separate himself from the common history. A woman writes to try to join it."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
"Only two types of white people in this world, chile, the ones doing shit to you and the ones wanting you to tell them ’bout the shit them other ones did."-Sara Collins, The Confessions of Frannie Langton
17. The Whispering Muse
By: Laura Purcell
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of obsession, superstition and ambit… read more
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- gothic
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18. The Corset
By: Laura Purcell
4.15
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain? Dorothea and Ruth. Prison visit… read more
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- gothic
- historical
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- mystery
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"Notoriety is by no means a death sentence in the world of art."-Laura Purcell, The Corset
"Grief is a violent emotion, a sort of acid that eats away at the best parts of us."-Laura Purcell, The Corset
"You'll call me heartless for thinking such thoughts. Maybe I was: a cavity yawned in my ribs, where once I'd felt a heart beat back."-Laura Purcell, The Corset
"I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, miss. Charitable people like yourself saved my life. But I wish they’d thought a bit more about what I was to do with it, once it was safe."-Laura Purcell, The Corset
19. The Skeleton Key
By: Erin Kelly
3.78
Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition
THIS REUNION WILL TEAR A FAMILY APART... Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family's insist… read more
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- horror
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20. The Photographer
By: E.S. Blake
4.08
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
When tragedy strikes, photographer Charles Franklin turns his back on family portraiture and descen… read more
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- historical fiction
21. The Betrayal of Thomas True
By: A.J. West
4.33
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
It is the year 1710, and Thomas True has arrived on old London Bridge with a dangerous secret. One … read more
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