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Pleasing Mr Pepys by Deborah Swift

2 October 2017 By Jean Briggs

Deb Willet, companion to Elizabeth, the wife of Samuel Pepys, takes centre stage in this intriguing tale of love, espionage and murder in Restoration London. Deb takes the position in Pepys’ household in order to escape from the tyranny of sour-faced Aunt Beth. Deb’s father is in Ireland about his business affairs; her mother deserted […]

Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World’s Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand

24 July 2017 By Jean Briggs

Green jade, glistening pearls, beryls, garnets, spinels, blood-red rubies, emeralds fine as water, and diamonds flashing fires of rainbows – this is a treasure trove of a book, a book of wonders, the story of the most famous diamond in the world, the Koh-i-Noor which now glitters in the crown of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen-mother. […]

Crimson and Bone by Marina Fiorato

27 June 2017 By Jean Briggs

Crimson is blood and white is bone. This is the defining image of the claustrophobic relationship between Pre-Raphaelite painter Francis Maybrick Gill and the prostitute Annie Stride whom Francis saves from a suicide attempt at Waterloo Bridge. Annie is in despair after the suicide of her friend, Mary-Anne. Mary-Anne’s voice is heard in flash-back at […]

Alfred Tennyson’s Bowels and Other Authorial Ailments

18 April 2017 By Jean Briggs

‘… the sufferings of which were dreadful … when I awoke with that horror upon me …’ Charles Dickens had a cold. Man flu? One might wonder when reading the dramatic description of his anguish. But, he was a novelist given to melodrama at times, and, considering the always present possibility of a cold turning […]

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