![]() ![]() It’s a steampunk/alternate history novel, thus although set in 2009 the technology, dress and social codes are sort-of-Victorian, with airships. The story opens in the divided city of Leicester, best known in fiction as the birthplace of Adrian Mole. It’s the sequel to The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter and several characters from that book return. Never was it harder for a woman in a man’s world… Unseemly Science is set in an alternative version of Britain where the mainland has been partitioned into a Republic (northern England and Scotland) and a Kingdom (the rest of England and southern Wales) with the border running through the English Midlands. ![]() Perhaps it is time for her fictional brother to come out of retirement for one last case? Her unstoppable curiosity leads her to a dark world of body-snatching, unseemly experimentation, politics and scandal. But something doesn’t feel right to Elizabeth. If only it were that easy! There is a new charitable organisation in town, run by some highly respectable women. ![]() Witnessing the hanging of Alice Carter, the false duchess, Elizabeth resolves to throw the Bullet Catcher’s Handbook into the fire, and forget her past. In the divided land of England, Elizabeth Barnabus has been living a double life – as both herself and as her brother, the private detective. ![]()
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