Лучшие книги Халли Рубенхолд

Книга о женщинах, убитых Джеком Потрошителем, в основе которой — пять поразительных человеческих историй и мрачный, волнующий портрет викторианского Лондона. Полли, Энни, Элизабет, Кэтрин и Мэри-Джейн вошли в историю вместе, хотя никогда не встречались. Они родились на Флит-стрит, в Найтсбридже, Вулверхэмптоне, Швеции и Уэльсе. Они писали баллады, управляли кофейнями, жили на дачах, вдыхали чернильную пыль от печатных машин и спасались от торговцев людьми. Их убили в один год: 1888-й. Убийца так и не был найден, но персонаж, созданный прессой для заполнения этого пробела, стал намного более известным, чем любая из этих пяти…

"Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies" was a bestseller of the 18th century, selling 250,000 copies in an age before mass consumerism. An annual "guide book," it detailed the names and "specialities" of the capital's prostitutes. During its heyday, 1757-1795, "Harris's List" was the essential accessory for any serious gentleman of pleasure. Yet beyond its titillating passages lay a glimpse into the lives of those who lived and died by the List's profits during the Georgian era. Hallie Rubenhold has collected the funniest, ruddiest, and most surreal entries penned by Jack Harris, "Pimp-General-of-All-England" into this book.

Fear your neighbour. Praise the Republic. Preach liberty. Hate monarchy. Speak in whispers. Trust no-one.

Revolutionary Paris, 1792: As the city spirals into bloodshed, Henrietta Lightfoot, a young Englishwoman, runs for refuge to the sumptuous home of Grace Dalrymple, notorious courtesan to the aristocracy. But loyalties are tested when she meets Agnes de Buffon, committed revolutionary and mistress of the most powerful man in France. Trapped in an unpredictable game between two dangerous women, Henrietta is about to learn a brutal lesson.

The first novel in a thrilling new historical series, featuring the adventures of Henrietta Lightfoot, courtesan, spy, actress, artist, forger, card sharp and suspected murderess on her journey through a Europe torn by revolution and war.

Mistress of My Fate begins in England in 1789, where the sheltered seventeen year old, Henrietta Ingerton escapes from the country estate on which she was raised only to find herself plunged into a world for which she is wholly unprepared.

Told in her own words, Mrs Lightfoot reminisces about her youth and seeks to set the record straight about the events that shaped her into the woman she became.