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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Illiterate Londoner Danny Cartwright, framed for murder by four upperclass Cambridge University students who stabbed the victim during a bar altercation, has the good luck to share a prison cell with Sir Nicholas Moncrieff who teaches him to read and provides him with the means by which to escape and take revenge against his persecutors.
2) Hazel
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009, c2007
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Hazel leaves her comfortable, if somewhat unconventional, London home in 1913 after her father has a breakdown, and goes to live in the Caribbean on her grandparents' sugar plantation where she discovers some shocking family secrets.
4) Vanity fair
Author
Publisher
Norilana Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A satirical look at Victorian manners recounting the experiences of two finishing school graduates, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When a fever leaves her deaf at the age of sixteen, shattering her hopes of marriage, Veda Grenfell turns her exceptional talent to her father's prestigious Savile Row tailoring firm. She abandons her beloved Savile Row and sets off on a treacherous journey into a world of deception, murder and madness after being betrayed by Harry Breadalbane, heir to an earldom.
7) A royal pain
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Lady Georgiana is summoned by the Queen to entertain a Bavarian Princess and introduce her to a playboy prince in hopes he will finally marry; however, since Georgiana's brother, Binky, cut off her allowance, she doesn't have the proper funds to feed them.
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