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Judith Flanders

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Judith Flanders was born in London, England, in 1959. She moved to Montreal, Canada, when she was two, and spent her childhood there, apart from a year in Israel in 1972, where she signally failed to master Hebrew.

After university, Judith returned to London and began working as an editor for various publishing houses. After this 17-year misstep, she began to write and in 2001 her first book, A Circle of Sisters, the biography of four Victorian sisters, was published to great acclaim, and nominated for the Guardian First Book Award. In 2003, The Victorian House (2004 in the USA, as Inside the Victorian Home) received widespread praise, and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards History Book of the Year. In 2006 Consuming Passions, was p ...more

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Working on Assassin’s Creed

Judith Flanders has never played video games – not even Angry Birds – so no one was more surprised than the historian herself when she was approached by the developers of the Assassin’s Creed franchise to serve as a consultant on the latest instalment, set on the streets of 19th-century London amid the Industrial Revolution.

“It’s like you’re an expert on a faraway place,” said Flanders. “You’ve l

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Average rating: 3.68 · 16,264 ratings · 2,856 reviews · 21 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime 3.43 avg rating — 3,435 ratings — published 2011 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Murder of Magpies 3.38 avg rating — 3,208 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England 4.18 avg rating — 2,586 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London 3.99 avg rating — 1,559 ratings — published 2012 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Bed of Scorpions (Sam Clair, #2) 3.71 avg rating — 1,159 ratings — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Cast of Vultures (Sam Clair, #3) 3.83 avg rating — 908 ratings — published 2017 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Christmas: A Biography 3.44 avg rating — 910 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes 3.82 avg rating — 653 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order 3.51 avg rating — 651 ratings — published 2020 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Howl of Wolves (Sam Clair, #4) 3.83 avg rating — 516 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.”
― Judith Flanders, A Murder of Magpies

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“There are supposed to be endorphins or whatever that make you feel great when you exercise. I don't think I have any, because I only feel great when I'm lying on the sofa reading a book, possibly while simultaneously eating biscuits.”
― Judith Flanders, A Murder of Magpies

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“Dickens' London was a place of the mind, but it was also a real place. Much of what we take today to be the marvellous imaginings of a visionary novelist turn out on inspection to be the reportage of a great observer.”
― Judith Flanders, The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London

tags: british-literature, charles-dickens, london-british-history, victorian-era

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The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston

12 votes, 30.0%

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum

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And the Sea Will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi

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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime by Judith Flanders

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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann

5 votes, 12.5%

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