![]() ![]() ![]() When she stumbles upon a clue to the unsolved apothecary murders that haunted London two hundred years ago, her life collides with the apothecary’s in a stunning twist of fate-and not everyone will survive. Meanwhile in present-day London, aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone, running from her own demons. But the apothecary’s fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries. ![]() Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. ![]() “A bold, edgy, accomplished debut!” -Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice NetworkĪ forgotten history. March 2021 Indie Next Pick and #1 LibraryReads Pick Named Most Anticipated of 2021 by Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Hello! magazine,, Bustle, Popsugar, Betches, Sweet July, and GoodReads! ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The novel begins with an introduction in which the unnamed psychiatrist, the semi-fictionalized Saadawi, recalls her time as a prison psychiatrist in Egypt. The novel is celebrated today as being one of the first novels on the injustices of the sex trade and its relationship to the oppression of women that reached a popular international audience. Firdaus’s character is loosely based on a woman Saadawi met while working as a psychiatrist and researcher on the psychological consequences of incarceration for women in Egypt. ![]() Saadawi draws from her own experiences being prosecuted for speaking out against injustices against women in Egypt, painting a sympathetic portrait of victims of the stigmatized, poorly regulated sex industry. Set in Cairo, Egypt, it follows sex worker Firdaus, who commits to her trade out of desperation, murders her abusive pimp, and then awaits her death sentence. Woman at Point Zero is a 1975 novel by Egyptian feminist author and physician Nawal El Saadawi. ![]() ![]() ![]() This was the same year which saw the publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and it may come as a surprise that The Beetle initially outsold Stoker’s cult vampire novel, going into no less than 15 editions before the Great War. ![]() The novel was originally issued as “The Beetle: A Mystery” in 1897. One of the first publications in the series is The Beetle by Richard Bernard Heldmann, better known by his pen-name Richard Marsh. ![]() Poisoned Pen has recently embarked on a new project which promises to be just as exciting Together with the Horror Writers Association, it is launching The Haunted Library of Horror Classics, a collection of classic horror novels presented in new editions, with commentaries and notes to introduce the contemporary reader to the historical and cultural context of the featured works. ![]() Poisoned Pen Press is an American publisher of (primarily) crime and detection novels, including the US editions of the highly successful British Library Crime Classics series which is resurrecting many forgotten classics of the Golden Age of crime fiction. As he came on, something entered into me, and forced itself from between my lips, so that I said, in a low, hissing voice, which I vow was never mine, “THE BEETLE!” ![]() |