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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorA Passion Most Pure
Julie Lessman · 480 pages
The Boy I Love
Marion Husband · 276 pages
Set in the socially tempestuous aftermath of World War I, and full of early twentieth-century taboos, love and betrayal, Marion Husband's award-winning debut novel is a passionately written and thought-provoking affair. Protagonist Paul Harris, a homosexual soldier fated to marry the fiancee of his dead brother through loyalty, is a deeply tender character drifting into a world he cannot love. For
The Sweetest Dark
Shana Abe
Chosen to be a charity student at a boarding school in World War I England, sixteen-year-old Lora discovers her long, latent magical powers just in time to battle an evil bent on decimating the school.
A Taste of Blood Wine
Freda Warrington · 564 pages
"On a First World War battlefield vampire Karl von Wultendorf struggles to free himself from his domineering maker, Kristian. The Neville sisters flourish in decadent, hedonistic London society in 1923: champagne, parties and the latest illegal substances. All except Charlotte, the middle of the three sisters who hides in a corner wishing she were back in Cambridge helping her professor father wit
Flambards
K.M. Peyton · 224 pages
Twelve-year-old Christina Parsons is sent to live with her fierce uncle and his two sons, Mark and Will, in their decaying mansion, Flambards. Christina discovers a passion for horses and riding but finds herself part of a strange household, divided by emotional undercurrents and cruelty. 1st book in the Flambards series.
Life Class
Pat Barker · 263 pages
In the Spring of 1914 a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but when Kit Neville — himself not long out of the Slade but already a well-known painter — makes it clear that he, too, is attracted to Elinor, Paul withdraws into a passionate affair with an artist's model.
Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross · 384 pages
Eighteen-year-old Iris dreams that one day her writing will make a difference. A war between gods is raging, and she’s landed a prestigious job at the Oath Gazette. But at home, she’s barely holding it together. Her brother is missing on the frontline. Her mother is lost in a haze of addiction. And each night Iris pours her heart out in letters to her brother. Letters that will never be answ
Songs of Love and War
Santa Montefiore · 464 pages
Their lives were mapped out ahead of them. But love and war will change everything ... West Cork, Ireland, 1900. The year marks the start of a new century, and the birth of three very different women: Kitty Deverill, the flame-haired Anglo-Irish daughter of the castle, Bridie Doyle, the daughter of the Irish cook and Celia Deverill, Kitty's flamboyant English cousin. Together they grow up in the d
A Name Unknown
Roseanna M. White · 428 pages
1914. Rosemary Gresham has no family beyond the band of former urchins that helped her survive as a girl in the mean streets of London. Grown now, they concentrate on stealing high-value items and have learned how to blend into upper-class society. But when Rosemary must determine whether a certain wealthy gentleman is loyal to Britain or to Germany, she is in for the challenge of a lifetime. How
Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear · 294 pages
Maisie Dobbs started as a maid to the London aristocracy, studied her way to Cambridge and served as a nurse in the Great War. It's 1929 and the first case for her newly established detective agency appears to be simple infidelity. Instead it leads her to confront a darker mystery from the past.
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
Laurie R. King · 368 pages
In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees in Sussex when a young woman literally stumbles onto him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes. Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern, twentieth-century woman proves a deft protégée and a
Angel on the Square
Gloria Whelan · 293 pages
In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.
This Side of Murder
Anna Lee Huber · 394 pages
Lured to Umbersea Island to attend the engagement party of one of her late husband's fellow officers, Verity mingles among the men her husband once fought beside, and discovers dark secrets--along with a murder clearly meant to conceal them. Relying on little more than a coded letter, the help of a dashing stranger, and her own sharp instincts, Verity is forced down a path she never imagined--and
Summerset Abbey
T.J. Brown · 292 pages
"Reminiscent of Downton Abbey, this first novel in a new series follows two sisters and their maid as they are suddenly separated by the rigid class divisions within a sprawling aristocratic estate and thrust into an uncertain world on the brink of WWI...Rowena and Victoria, daughters to the second son of the Earl of Summerset, have always treated their governess's daughter, Prudence, like a siste
Guinevere: A Medieval Romance
Lavinia Collins · 390 pages
No Angel
Penny Vincenzi · 626 pages
Routinely making decisions that have dangerous consequences, strong-willed aristocrat's daughter Celia Lytton sets in motion a series of events during World War I that have a particular impact on her family, a destitute woman, and others. (from Amazon)
It Sleeps in Me
Kathleen O'Neal Gear · 288 pages
Sora's the High Chieftess of the Black Falcon Nation. For years she loved Flint, her husband, deeply. He loved Sora with an obsession, so strong, that he'd murder men who'd so much as look at her. Incapable of living with such uncontrollable rage, Flint leaves Sora, moving back to his mother's clan. Now Sora has remarried and she's devoted to her clan as their High Chieftess. She tries to forget
The Luxe
Anna Godbersen · 448 pages
Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn.Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions.White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups.This is Manhattan, 1899.Beautiful sisters Elizabeth and Diana Holland rule Manhattan's social scene. Or so it appears. When the girls discover their status among New York City's elite is far from secure, suddenly everyone—from the b
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence · 322 pages
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.