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Mrs Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When the married Isabella Robinson was introduced to the dashing Edward Lane at a party in 1850, she was utterly enchanted. He was 'fascinating', she told her diary, before chastising herself for being so susceptible to a man's charms. But a wish had taken hold of her, and she was to find it hard to sha ...Show more
The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions by KATE SUMMERSCALE
$32.99 NZD
Category: History
A thrilling compendium of our deepest fears and obsessions by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. Ever been struck dumb when speaking in public? You might be suffering from glossophobia. Do your book-buying habits verge on bibliomania? Do you recoil in arachnophobic horror at the si ...Show more
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Bloomsbury Modern Classics by Kate Summerscale
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher : Or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale
$27.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome ...Show more
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
$29.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, a ...Show more
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