Blogs in July 2023

Bloomsbury Girls 5th July 2023

One bookshop. Fifty-one rules. Three women who break them all. 1950. Bloomsbury Books on London’s Lamb’s Conduit Street has resisted change for 100 years, run by men and guided by the manager’s unbreakable rules. But after the turmoil of...

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The House Keepers 18th November 2022

Park Lane, 1905. The grandest house in Mayfair has just dismissed its housekeeper. All manner of treasures lie behind the pillared doors – and scandalous secrets too. With the event of the season looming, nothing must go wrong. But...

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Square Haunting 28th April 2021

Mecklenburgh Square, on the radical fringes of interwar Bloomsbury, was home to activists, experimenters and revolutionaries; among them were the modernist poet H. D., detective novelist Dorothy L. Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison, economic historian Eileen Power, and writer and...

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Crossed Skis 29th June 2020

In London’s Bloomsbury, Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard looks down at a dismal scene. Here is the victim, burnt to a crisp. Here are the clues – clues which point to a good climber and expert skier, and...

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Moonlight Over Mayfair 1st November 2019

London, 1937. With a new king in place, tensions are rising in London and across Europe. Shaken by the Great Depression and with talk of another war coming, the Buckingham Hotel is trying to regain some stability. Upstairs, Vivienne...

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