Victoria Hamilton
Author
Publisher
Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"[An] outstanding series launch. ... Hamilton expertly balances the page-turning detection with the story of a hypocritical society where women, whether they are scullery maids or orphans, rarely get to make their own decisions."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Scandal and slayings among Regency London's elite
The shocking murder of Sir Henry Claybourne leaves Regency London shaken and horror-struck. But for
...2) Bowled over
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When her glass bowl is used as a murder weapon, vintage kitchenware and cookbook collector Jaymie Leighton must figure out who wants to implicate her in the death of a former friend.
3) What Remains
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Two years after her disappearance, the badly decomposed body of Melissa Young - a single woman in her early thirties - is discovered in the loft of her former apartment. How is it that no one missed her, or even noticed that she was gone? What does that say about the life she lived or the society we occupy? And what of her killer? Are they still at large?
4) Toast
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A delicious love letter to the tastes and smells that a young boy associates with his journey into adulthood. Nigel's Mother was always a poor cook, and her addiction to all things canned isn't helping. Nigel, on the other hand, laps up cookbooks as if they were porn, and spends all his free time gazing longingly at the delights offered at Percy Salt's grocery shop.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne... a new era is dawning. Queen Elizabeth II is a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
As a new era begins, Queen Elizabeth struggles to navigate her while preserving both the monarchy and her marriage. Beginning with soldiers in Her Majesty's Armed Forces fighting an illegal war in Egypt , and ending with the downfall of her third Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan after a devastating scandal, the second season bears witness to the end of the age of deference, and ushers in the revolutionary era of the 1960s. This drama follows the political...
Publisher
Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"From Nobel laureate William Golding's (Lord of the flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat, humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers, as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government."--Container.
