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When deputy sheriff Constance Kopp notices how many young women are being jailed over dubious charges of waywardness, incorrigibility and moral depravity, she smells a rat. But what can she do to fight the forces of sexism? And how will her principles fare when her own sister, Fleurette, starts misbehaving?
A swashbuckling classic of action-adventure with one of the most distinctive heroes in fiction – the flamboyant Scarlet Pimpernel. With an introduction by Dame Hilary Mantel, the Booker prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
An abridged edition of Alexandre Dumas’s flamboyant tale of action and adventure in seventeenth-century France.
A beautifully illustrated edition of Daniel Defoe’s enduring classic about an adventurer stranded on a desert island.
Spellbinding and mesmerizing, Ken Follett’s classic masterpiece is beloved throughout the world. In medieval England a resourceful monk strives to build the world’s greatest Gothic cathedral.
The fifth book in S. J. Parris’s bestselling, critically acclaimed series following Giordano Bruno, set at the time of Queen Elizabeth I
In 1915, lady cops were not expected to chase down fugitives on the streets of New York City. But Constance Kopp never did what anyone expected. After besting (and arresting) a ruthless silk factory owner and his gang of thugs, Constance Kopp has earned her place as the nation’s first female deputy sheriff. She’s proven that she can’t be deterred, evaded, or outrun. But when a con man escapes from jail on her watch, she must find him before he disappears completely, and she ends up right back where she started – unemployed.
Paris, 1792: Henrietta – an Englishwoman alone amidst the French Revolution. Grace – former mistress to the highest rulers in France. Agnes – the current mistress, who will stop at nothing to keep her place in the palace. Together, the three women will engage in a deadly triangle of rivalry and power play. Who will win, who will lose and who will keep their head?
1820s Britain: after the wars with France, when unemployment was high and soldiers could be paid off, when the government was desperately afraid of social unrest, any crime was drastically punished and thousands were hung. But one could petition the King and an investigation might ensue?
Constance Kopp doesn’t quite fit the mould. She towers over most men, has no interest in marriage or domestic affairs, and has been isolated from the world since a family secret sent her and her sisters into hiding fifteen years ago. One day, a belligerent and powerful silk factory owner runs down their buggy, and a dispute over damages turns into a war of bricks, bullets, and threats as he unleashes his gang on their family farm. When the sheriff enlists her help in convicting the men, Constance is forced to confront her past and defend her family – and she does it in a way that few women of 1914 would have dared.
After committing a crime anyone but a close relative might forgive, Karli Mortdecai Van Cleef leaves Holland double-quick with his uncle’s buckshot lodged firmly in the seat of his breeches. Discretion being the least-idiotic part of valour he decides to hide far away in London, among the tea shops and opium dens.
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