The Book Trunk

Victorian

  • Downfall of a Victorian Fraudster

    Jabez, pictured on the front cover, wasdescribed by contemporaries as being short  and stout with spindly legs. Jabez Spencer Balfour was a Victorian businessman and MP who had some very creative accounting methods. When his fraud was discovered and his massive… Continue reading

  • Consequences – Beware of Spoilers

    If you don’t like spoilers, then don’t read this post, because I’m going to give away an ending! Now I realise that many of you don’t like to be told what happens in a novel, but I’ve always been quite… Continue reading