Judith Flanders, Author . Norton $34.95 (499p) ISBN 978-0-393-05209-1
This room-by-room guide brims with delightful description and discussion of the Victorians and their domestic environments. Flanders (A Circle of Sisters
, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award) evokes the period's intimate...
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Judith Flanders, Author . Norton $27.95 (392p) ISBN 978-0-393-05210-7
Although born to a humble Methodist minister, the clever and artistically inclined Macdonald sisters married "up," into the Victorian bourgeoisie. Georgiana married the rising pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones, whose affair with...
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
Judith Flanders. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $26.99 (576p) ISBN 978-1-250-02487-9
Social historian Flanders (Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England) does a superb job of demonstrating the role that the press and fiction writers played in shaping the British public’s attitudes toward crime...
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Judith Flanders. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $27.99 (544p) ISBN 978-1-250-04021-3
Charles Dickens grimly portrayed Londoners as people resigned to hardscrabble living, ubiquitous filth, and prevalent violence, and Flanders (The Invention of Murder) successfully recreates the feel of London at Dickens’s peak as she delves deep...
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Judith Flanders. Minotaur, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-05645-0
Social historian Flanders (The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London) makes her fiction debut with an amusing mystery set in the eccentric world of British book publishing. Samantha “Sam” Clair, a snarky middle-aged editor at London...
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Judith Flanders. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-06735-7
British social historian Flanders (The Victorian City) takes readers on an engrossing tour as she traces the process by which houses—physical structures constructed for shelter and functionality—evolved into homes: the places in which we live,...
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Judith Flanders. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-05646-7
Art and money are the linchpins of Flanders’s enjoyable follow-up to 2015’s A Murder of Magpies. At lunch at a London restaurant with old friend Aidan Merriam, sardonic book editor Samantha “Sam” Clair learns that Frank Compton, Aidan’s partner in...
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Judith Flanders. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-08782-9
Near the start of Flanders’s engaging if convoluted third novel featuring London book editor Samantha Clair (after 2016’s A Bed of Scorpions), Sam agrees to help an elderly friend, Viv, locate a missing neighbor of Viv’s, Dennis Harefield. Days...
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Judith Flanders. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-11834-9
Flanders (The Making of Home) dispenses with cherished trappings and traditions in this investigation of Christmas, drawing a short line from Christmas’s religious origins to its secular celebration. She begins by reporting on the ecclesiastical...
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Judith Flanders. Minotaur, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-08783-6
In Flanders’s entertaining fourth mystery featuring London book editor Samantha Clair (after 2017’s A Cast of Vultures), Sam accepts the invitation of her upstairs neighbors, actors Kay and Anthony, to attend the opening night of a new production of
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Judith Flanders, read by Susan Duerden. HighBridge Audio, unabridged, 7 CDs, 8 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-62231-602-1
The good news is that Flanders’s humorous debut thriller about the perils of a British book editor is filled with wit and snarky comments, along with shrewd insight into London’s apparently cutthroat publishing scene. The not-so-good news is that...
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