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(Paperback)

By: Brian Thompson

ISBN: 9780006532217
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A Victorian drama of three intertwined lives set against a backcloth of the greatest empire the world has ever seen. By degrees heroic, poignant, whimsical and tragic, Brian Thompsons wonderful book is precisely what that much-misused clich rattling good yarn might have been coined to describe. RICHARD HOLMES


(Paperback)

By: Brian Thompson

ISBN: 9780099539490
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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It is London, 1875. At Lady Cornford's famous soiree (sugared almonds and tittle-tattle) everyone is gossiping about Henry Ellis Margam's latest hit, The Widow's Secret. Only a few people know that one of Lady C's guests, the enigmatic Bella Wallis, is in fact the bestselling novelist.


(Paperback)

By: Brian Thompson

ISBN: 9780099581864
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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This is the story of the unexpectedly joyous consequences ones to baffle many, not least themselves until her death, aged 78.

Both were writers, though they came from opposite ends of the social register she an Admirals daughter, he the descendant of unruly Cockney eccentrics.


(Paperback)

By: Brian Thompson

ISBN: 9780099539476
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Bella Wallis respectable society widow with a secret identity as a writer of sensationalist novels is now happily engaged to the love of her life, Philip Westland.


(Paperback)

By: Brian Thompson

ISBN: 9780099539483
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Bella Wallis is a respectable society woman with a secret identity: she writes sensationalist novels exposing the scoundrels that litter high society. So when a crested cigar case is found near the body of a murdered prostitute, Bella and her friends are determined to trace the murderer and write a mystery that will avenge the poor girl's death.