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A unique, high-energy retelling of the classic Dickens novel, OLIVER TWIST.
Eighteen-year-old Twist doesn't have much. No money, no home and no family. All he has is hi...
History records that on June 9, 1870, Charles Dickens died of a cerebral haemorrhage.
History, however, is wrong. June 9, 1870, is the day on which Emile de la Rue murd...
Charles Dickens created some of the most memorable characters in English literature and was also a larger-than-life individual himself, a champion of the underdog. The ant...
It was the best of times. It was the worst of crimes.
On a sweltering summer night, a woman dies mysteriously in her hospital bed in New York City. A thousand miles awa...
A fictionalized account of a difficult chapter in the life of the greatest Victorian novelist.
"All that I can see, all that I can hear, and all that I can think of is ...
This Christmas novel, set in London in 1843, tells the story of an orphan named Alfy Wickfield, who meets and is befriended by England’s most famous writer, Charles Dicken...
Literature? It can cost you your life.
When famed mystery author Imelda Bywater turns up dead during her annual seaside writing retreat, recently retired police detecti...
On a rust-bucket cargo ship bound from Liverpool to the United States in 1848, an Irish stowaway named Devlin steals a suspicious package after witnessing it changing hand...
Nancy has spent her whole life on the vibrant and gritty streets of Victorian London, first as one of Fagin's child pickpockets and now on the arm of violent and mercurial...
Olivia Brownlow is no damsel in distress. Born in a workhouse and raised as a boy among thieving London street gangs, she is as tough and cunning as they come. When she is...
IN THE TRADITION OF WIDE SARGASSO SEA, HAVISHAM IS THE ASTONISHING PRELUDE TO CHARLES DICKENS'S GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
Before she became the immortal and haunting Miss Hav...
'Loved it from the very first page - Estella is a superbly well-drawn character and absolutely unforgettable.' Frances Quinn
You know Miss Havisham.
The world's most...
At just three years of age, Estella is taken from her mother, adopted by the wealthy but eccentric Miss Havisham and taught how to break men's hearts. Satis House is dark ...
Artful: A Novel
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(0)Oliver Twist is one of the most well-known stories ever told, about a young orphan who has to survive the mean streets of London before ultimately being rescued by a kindl...
By the Booker-winning author of Schindler’s Ark, a vibrant novel about Charles Dickens’ son and his little-known adventures in the Australian Outback.
In 1868, Charles Di...
When Kit, a work-obsessed literature student, goes on a whim to a dance class she is hoping simply to take her mind off her studies. Soon it looks like Joe, a stranger she...
A lively and insightful biographical celebration of the imaginative genius of Charles Dickens, published in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of his death.
Charles...
Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens’s untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends his truste...
When Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857, she was 18: a professional actress performing in his production of The Frozen Deep. He was 45: a literary legend, a nati...
Meg Pickel's older brother, Orion, has disappeared. One night, she steals out to look for him, and makes two surprising discoveries: She stumbles upon a séance that she su...