by faith | Feb 7, 2018 | Articles by Anna
In the 1960s, Margaret Atwood read a book called Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush, a 19th century account of pioneer life by Susanna Moodie, an English emigrant to Canada. A chapter of the book is devoted to the Provincial Lunatic Asylum in Toronto, and to...
by faith | Feb 7, 2018 | News
The Unseeing longlisted for HWA Debut Crown The Clockwork Girl has been long listed for the prestigious Dublin Literary Award, thanks to nominations from...
by faith | Feb 7, 2018 | Articles by Anna
We often think of the Victorians as a moralistic and upright bunch, and of the 19th century as a time when things became more civilized. After all, over the course of the century, violent sports were mostly outlawed, the Bloody Code was dismantled, and capital...
by faith | Feb 7, 2018 | Articles by Anna
Anna picks her top 5 historical fiction novels based on true crimes for Historia magazine. Why are we still so fascinated? Read All About It!...
by faith | Feb 7, 2018 | Articles by Anna
May, 1750. Children have been disappearing from the streets of Paris. A lawyer named Barbier writes in his diary: ‘For a week now people have been saying that police constables in disguise are roaming around various quarters of Paris, abducting children, boys...
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