The Victorian era inspires diverse ... acclaimed for its memorable characters, interesting story and high-quality art style. In total, there are now 28 books in the series which date back to ...

It used to be that books ... characters in “The Queen of Fives” — Quinn, Tor and Lady Kendal — all are women, which feels like a bracing corrective to most literature of the male-dominated ...

The notorious Victorian era serial killer Jack the Ripper's identity may have been discovered after 130 years due to new DNA ...

When bestselling author Elly Griffiths signed off on a high last year from her long-running and critically acclaimed Ruth Galloway Mysteries, starring a forensic archaeologist, her army of adoring ...

Virginia Feito gets inside the twisted, bloodthirsty, and often comical head of a killer-posing-as-a-governess in the new book "Victorian Psycho." ...

A Thousand Blows centres on Hezekiah Moscow (Malachi Kirby) and Alec Munroe (Francis Lovehall), best friends from Jamaica, who arrive in 1880s London and find themselves thrust into the bare-knuckle ...

To mark Valentine’s Day here are some love-themed stories from Essex history, some with happy endings, some with bloody ones.

The 40 Elephants were a band of women who robbed ... real-life ­historic characters. He said: “They’re hidden or ­forgotten working-class people that the history books didn’t bother ...

Painter Walter Sickert - believed by some to have been the notorious serial killer - once spent the night at a Cornish pub ...