Judith Flanders

A deeply engaging and completely original book about nineteenth-century Britain’s fascination with good quality murder....

'Marvellous . . . I read it with astonished delight . . . It is equally scholarly and entertaining.' - Jan Morris 'Quirky and compelling.' - The Times Once we've learned it as children, few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order. And yet the order of the alphabet, that...

What's an editor to do with so many demands? Do you deal with the morning's pile of manuscript submissions first? Or do you concentrate on your ex-lover, whose business partner has been found dead....

Usually sharp-witted editor Sam Clair stumbles through her post-launch-party morning with the hangover to end all hangovers....