Books written by Laura Purcell

The Corset: The captivating new novel from the prize-winning author of The Silent Companions

The girls said he'd lost his feet to the frost. The thought of it haunted me: a rapacious cold, with teeth that gnawed through flesh.
The Poison Thread

I'd imagine her, sometimes, on a great silver vessel that cleaved the water as it sailed for Africa and ... The girls said he'd lost his feet to the frost.
The Haunting Season: Eight Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights

It was like a pen-and-ink sketch: the narrow timbers of the house, the wintry drive white with hoar frost, the clipped symmetry of the yews and their long shadows... But the other, similar, houses he'd seen were ramshackle, their gables ...
The Silent Companions: A Novel

A Victorian ghost story that evokes a most unsettling kind of fear, The Silent Companions is a tale that creeps its way through the consciousness in ways you least expect—much like the companions themselves.
Queen of Bedlam

This is an emotional tale based on historical fact imagining the lives of mad King George III's wife and daughters.
The Shape of Darkness: A Novel

A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead - and to try and identify their killers - in this beguiling new tale from the queen of Gothic fiction, Laura Purcell As ...
Laura Purcell Collection: The Silent Companions, The Corset and Bone China

A collection of three deliciously dark, atmospheric tales: read with the lights on.
Bone China

While he devotes himself to his controversial medical trials, Louise finds herself increasingly discomfited by the strange tales her new maid tells of the fairies that hunt the land, searching for those they can steal away to their realm.
Mistress of the Court

Dare she refuse?. Set in the turbulent years of the Hanoverian accession, Mistress of the Court tells the story of the two remarkable women at the centre of George II's reign.
The Poison Thread: A Novel

The story Ruth has to tell of her deadly creations—of bitterness and betrayal, of death and dresses—will shake Dorothea's belief in rationality, and the power of redemption. Can Ruth be trusted? Is she mad, or a murderer?
The House of Whispers

While he devotes himself to his controversial medical trials, Louise finds herself increasingly discomfited by the strange tales her new maid tells of the fairies that hunt the land, searching for those they can steal away to their realm.
The Shape of Darkness

"As the age of the photograph dawns in Victorian Bath, silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat.
The Silent Companions

Newly married, newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge.
The Corset

"Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer?
God Save the King

They are forced to take love wherever they can find it - with devastating consequences. The moving true story of George III's madness and the women whose lives it destroyed.
Compañías Silenciosas

Set in Victorian England, this book is a disturbing gothic story that will send shivers down your spine.
Il filo avvelenato

Il filo avvelenato
Die stillen Gefährten: Eine viktorianische Geistergeschichte

Die stillen Gefährten: Eine viktorianische Geistergeschichte
Gli amici silenziosi

A lungo in testa alle classifiche inglesi, acclamato tanto dai lettori quanto dai critici, Gli amici silenziosi è un piccolo gioiello nel solco di intramontabili classici quali Giro di vite e Rebecca la prima moglie.
Záhada panství Bainbridge

Když se mladá vdova Elsie přestěhuje na venkovské sídlo svého zesnulého manžela Ruperta Bainbridge, čeká ji kromě chladného přijetí od služebných a nekonečných hodin osamění i temné překvapení.