The Crimson Petal and the White'Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them . . .' So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian London. Amongst an unforgettable cast of low lifes, physicians, businessmen and prostitutes, meet our heroine Sugar, a young woman trying to drag herself up from the gutter any way she can. Be prepared for a mesmerising tale of passion, intrigue, ambition and revenge.

is plotting to reignite hostilities in the Holy Land

across Europe to the misty waterways of Venice where

Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die

Flavia and her family are brilliant creations

and the shifting of history underneath our feet

Someone is staging famous Caravaggio paintings

Hilary Mantel is one of Britains most accomplished and acclaimed writers

Susan is beginning to miss her literary life in London even though her publishing career once entangled her in a lethal literary murder plot

he sits in the luxury of New York's Century Club and tells his tale to the young man from Washington he has summoned

research has stalleduntil a long-lost diary surfaces with a vital clue

Nor is it all reindeer

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