A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
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Kenzie and Gennaro are private investigators in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of South...
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Sarah
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Cherry Vanilla, twelve years old with a penchant for short leather skirts and make-up, has one...
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My Beautiful Shadow
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Kayo is a young Tokyo housewife and mother. Outwardly, she is no different from other young mothers,...
Fanny Hill: Or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Keith Carabine and John Cleland
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as Fanny Hill, is one of the most notorious texts in...
Dean (6927 KP) rated The Deuce - Season 3 in TV
Sep 8, 2020
Maybe slightly weaker than the first 2 series and overall not as dramatic in terms of storylines, but still with some big surprises. If you have invested in the first 2 series it's worth watching this to see how it turns out for the characters.
Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated The Wicked Cometh in Books
Jan 1, 2018
Following closely in Sarah Waters' footsteps, this is a Victorian pastiche that returns to those perennials of murder, identity, prostitution and female survival. Carlin writes with fluency and conjures up a grim, dank, seedy London where the only sanctuary for our heroine is in female friendship
While this is an enjoyable read, it does feel more generic than original, and there are some clumsy tricks such as the extended death-bed confession/life-story at the end. Great for fans of Victoriana.
The Pictures
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World-weary Jonathan Craine is a detective at the LAPD who has spent his entire career as a studio...
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World
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Though many of the sexual practices of the Ancient Greeks and Romans are known and accepted today,...
Lucie Dumas
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London, 1871: Lucie Dumas of Lyon has accepted a stipend from her former lover and his wife, on...
Historical Fiction Women's Fiction Victorian London