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‘Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies’ by Hallie Rubenhold

When I was reading Michael Faber’s novel The Crimson Petal and the White recently, I was struck by the frequent references to the infamous More Sprees in London, a little book detailing the different prostitutes available around the town, where to find them, what they charged and to which particular specialties each one would cater.  [...]

‘The Crimson Petal and the White’ by Michel Faber

I hate to seem prejudiced, but there are certain literary devices which I tend to find very off-putting in a book.  The first is present tense narration: logically the action of the book can have taken place in the past or it could be going to take place in the future, but I’m always very aware [...]