Fantasy | 448pp | Orbit | August 2011
An engaging, atmospheric crime novel blurring historical reality and the fantastical in Victorian-era Edinburgh
E dinburgh 1827: It's a city populated by mad alchemists who treat Frankenstein as textbook rather than novel and by a criminal underclass prepared to treat with the darkest of powers. And one officer, from the recently formed Edinburgh City Police, must follow the trail of undead hounds, emptied graves, brutal murders and mob violence into the deepest and darkest corners of Edinburgh’s underworld – both literal and magical – and back again to the highest reaches of elegant, intellectual Edinburgh society. Brian Ruckley is the author of THE GODLESS WORLD TRILOGY: WINTERBIRTH (Orbit 2006), BLOODHEIR (Orbit 2008) and FALL OF THANES (Orbit 2009).
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*MORLAND DYNASTY 34: THE WINDING ROAD by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Historical fiction | 640 pp | Sphere | November 2011
Continuing the addictive saga of the Morland family, now with its many branches spread across the Empire and the new world.
1925. England is prosperous; the nation has put the war behind it, and hope is in the air. The Jazz Age is in full swing in New York, where Polly Morland is the most feted beauty of the day. But a proposal of marriage from the powerful, enigmatic Ren Alexander takes her by surprise. Her cousin Lennie, expanding his interests from radio to television and talkies, worries that no one knows much about Ren; but his attempts to find out more threaten disaster. In London, the General Strike gives the country another chance to show its stiff upper lip, as everyone helps out. Emma drives an ambulance again, while Molly runs a canteen, and each unexpectedly finds love, and a new career. But the whirligig is slowing, shadows are gathering over Europe, and the good times are almost over. Morland Place is threatened by the worst disaster of its history, and the Old World reaches out a hand to pluck Polly from the New. The Wall Street Crash brings the fabulous decade to a shattering close, and nothing will ever be quite the same again; but new shoots emerge from the ruins, hope is reborn, and the Morlands prove again that family is everything, and will endure. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles is a past winner of the Romantic Novelists Award, and also the creator of the increasingly popular series of crime novels featuring Inspector Bill Slider.
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