The Dress Lodger
by Sheri Holman | 
Habits of the House
by Fay Weldon | 
The Quincunx
by Charles Palliser | 
The Journal of Dora Damage
by Belinda Starling | 
Slammerkin
by Emma Donoghue | 
Falling Angels
by Tracy Chevalier | 
Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters | 
God is an Englishman
by R. F. Delderfield | 
The Sealed Letter
by Emma Donoghue | 
The Essex Serpent
by Sarah Perry | 
Rustication
by Charles Palliser |
Jamrach's Menagerie
by Carol Birch | 
Tipping the Velvet
by Sarah Waters | 
Affinity
by Sarah Waters | 
The Meaning of Night
by Michael Cox | 
The Cider House Rules
by John Irving | 
The Apothecary's Daughter
by Julie Klassen | 
The MacKinnon's Bride
by Tanya Anne Crosby | 
The Wild One
by Danelle Harmon | 
The Duke's Holiday
by Maggie Fenton |
Sugar, 19, prostitute in Victorian London, yearns for a better life. From brutal brothel-keeper Mrs Castaway, she ascends in society. Affections of self-involved perfume magnate William Rackham soon smells like love. Her social rise attracts preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all kinds.