Barbara Ewing

The Victorian gossipmongers called them The Petticoat Men. But to young Mattie Stacey they are Freddie and Ernest, her gentlemen lodgers. She doesn't care that they dress up in sparkling gowns to attend society balls as 'Fanny and Stella'. She only cares that they are kind to her, make her laugh, and pay their rent on time. Then one fateful night, Fanny and Stella are arrested, and Mattie – outraged but staunch – is dragged into a shocking court trial, hailed in newspapers all over England as 'The Scandal of the Century'.

The Petticoat Men

The Mesmerist

Losing the older sister who protected her from their Parliament member father's obsessive attentions, Harriet flees cholera-stricken 1849 London to a New Zealand colony, unaware that her father is on her trail. 10,000 first printing.

A Novel

The Trespass

A captivating, rich historical novel set in nineteenth-century Bloomsbury.

Or the Misses Preston, of Bloomsbury

Circus of Ghosts

As a child, Rosetta is fascinated by words and loves being told stories. She thinks she is named after the Princess Rosetta of the fairytales, who married the King of the Peacocks and lived happily ever after. But when she finds that it is a mysterious small port town in Egypt that gave her her name, her interest in hieroglyphics is born. Years later, when Rose is an older, wiser and sadder woman, it is her love of language that saves her life. The French Revolution; the rise of the power of the English church; the battles for Egypt between the British and the French; the discovery of the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone in that same small port town - and above all the machinations of a rich, amoral, social-climbing member of the 'new' aristocracy and the extraordinary characters that surround him - all whirlpool together to carry Rose into France and a shared moment with Napoleon Bonaparte, and into the dark, unknown world of North Africa in her search to understand the meaning of words, and to find a child of her own.

Rosetta

Trasgressione

The mesmerist or The Misses Preston, of Bloomsbury

1765. Filipo di Vecellio of Florence, portrait painter, is the toast of London: rich, successful, and married to Angelica, known as the most beautiful woman in the city. Their Pall Mall home is the hub of the art world; their impressive social gatherings run so smoothly by Filipo's silent sister, Francesca. But beneath the surface, the house conceals a swarm of dangerous secrets. Where does Francesca di Vecellio go as the sun sets over Covent Garden? And why are there always candles lit in her attic, while no candles burn for her brother's exquisite wife?

The fraud

As a child, Rosetta is fascinated by words and loves being told stories. She thinks she is named after Princess Rosetta of the fairytales. But when she finds that it is a small port town in Egypt that gave her her name, her interest in hieroglyphics is born. Years later, when Rose is an older, wiser and sadder woman, it is her love of language that saves her life. The French Revolution; the rise of the power of the English church; the battles for Egypt between the British and the French; the discovery of the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone in that same small port all combine to carry Rose into France and a shared moment with Napoleon Bonaparte, and into the dark, unknown world of North Africa in her search to understand the meaning of words...

Um audacioso thriller ambientado na Nova York do século XIX. Ex-atriz, mesmerista profissional e suspeita de assassinato, Cordelia Preston foge da Inglaterra para os Estados Unidos, onde se junta ao circo. Ela está acompanhada de sua filha Gwenlliam, uma talentosa acrobata — e neta do cruel duque de Llannefydd. Determinado a reaver Gwenlliam e silenciar Cordelia permanentemente, o duque envia o inescrupuloso Sr. Doveribbon à Nova York para rastreá-las. E elas logo descobrirão que a terra das oportunidades é também palco de disputas entre perigosas gangues e as autoridades locais. Em O Circo dos Fantasmas, Barbara Ewing evoca a vida no século XIX a partir da agitação da Nova York dos anos 1840 e pinta um vívido e fascinante retrato de uma cidade cheia de personalidade, onde mãe e filha devem aprender a enfrentar seus medos mais obscuros e seguir em frente... Ou serão destruídas.

O circo dos fantasmas

1765. Filipo di Vecellio of Florence, portrait painter, is the toast of London: rich, successful, and married to Angelica, known as the most beautiful woman in the city. Their Pall Mall home is the hub of the art world; their impressive social gatherings run so smoothly by Filipo's silent sister, Francesca. But beneath the surface, the house conceals a swarm of dangerous secrets. Where does Francesca di Vecellio go as the sun sets over Covent Garden? And why are there always candles lit in her attic, while no candles burn for her brother's exquisite wife? Within the bustling artistic lives of the di Vecellios hides corruption and lies; love and tragedy. And wild ambition unbalances the capital's art world as, finally, a wonderful portrait battles for the right to paint the truth . . .

The Fraud

1765. Filipo di Vecellio, retratista florentino, es la nueva sensación en Londres: rico, dotado de un gran talento y casado con la mujer más bella de la ciudad, lo tiene todo para ser feliz. Su mansión es el centro de las reuniones artísticas de la ciudad, y en ellas todo va como la seda gracias a la ayuda que le brinda su ama de llaves y hermana, Francesca. Pero bajo la brillante superficie habitan oscuros secretos e incógnitas. Mientras la gran y bulliciosa ciudad comercial expande sus tentáculos ávidos y codiciosos, se desata un clímax en el que entran en juego el amor, la pasión... Y una ambición feroz que amenaza con transformar el panorama artístico de la capital.

El fraude

New York, late 1840s, and in the wild, noisy, brash and beautiful circus of Silas P. Swift a shadowy, mesmeric woman entrances crowds because she can unlock the secrets of troubled minds. Above them all her daughter sweeps and soars: acrobat and tightrope-walker. People cannot take their eyes from the mysterious woman in the Big Top who can help so many others - but she cannot unlock dark, literally unspeakable, memories of her own. In London memories fester in the mind of an old and venomous duke of the realm. He plots, with an unscrupulous lawyer (and a huge financial reward) against the mother and the daughter: to kill one, and to abduct the other and bring her across the Atlantic to him: She is mine. The actress and mesmerist Cordelia Preston and her daughter Gwenlliam live with their unusual family in the exciting new city among exciting new ideas: the telegraph, the daguerrotype, anaesthesia, table-tapping. And among the dangerous street-gangs of New York also, whose raw violence meets Cordelia and Gwenlliam and those that they love, with unexpected results.

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