Bridget Walsh

A Variety Palace

1 - The Tumbling Girl (Jun-2023)

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  Daughters of the Famine Road
  

  • Mar-2022
  • / Historical
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  Annie Power and Jane Keating have much in common. As young Irish women in the 1840s, they know the value of family, home and friendship. Even more importantly, they understand the need to survive against a backdrop of famine, disease and cruel coloni...

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  Daughters in Exile
  

  • Oct-2022
  • / General Fiction
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  Annie and Jane leave Ireland at the height of the Famine. Annie takes her brother and sister to their aunt in New York. She is determined to help other young exiles like herself.Jane, now a convict, is transorted to New South Wales. Vulnerable and al...

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  The Tumbling Girl
  

  • Jun-2023
  • / Historical Mystery
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  A Variety Palace - 1
  

  'Splendid' Wall Street Journal'A wry, warm and proper rib-tickling slice of dirty Victorian gothic' Julia Crouch, author of The Daughters 1876, Victorian London. Minnie Ward, a feisty scriptwriter for the Variety Palace Music Hall, is devastated when...

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  The Innocents
  

  • Apr-2024
  • / Historical Mystery
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  ‘Victorian crime at its grittiest, most exciting best' Essie Fox In the hotly anticipated follow-up to The Tumbling Girl, Minnie and Albert take on a new crime-solving quest in the world of a Victorian music hall. The Variety Palace Music Hall is i...

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  The Spirit Guide
  

  • Mar-2025
  • / Historical Mystery
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  *‘Triumphant . . . Vivid period detail, clever plotting, and thoughtful characterizations. This series merits a long run' Publishers Weekly (starred review) The latest novel of murder and manipulation in a sparkling series with f...

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